"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is……" — Montgomery Clift
"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art."
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Montgomery Clift
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14 Quotes by Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift has 14 quotes on this site.
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I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what…
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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
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The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?
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Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!
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If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.
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I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.
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The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
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I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my…
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Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
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A man should be what he can do.
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Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself.…
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James Dean’s death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don’t know…
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