Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Erich von Stroheim

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian actor Erich von Stroheim.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Erich von Stroheim

Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His 1924 film Greed is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made. After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights issues, Stroheim was banned for life as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.
I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.
I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality. — © Erich von Stroheim
I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.
For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.
Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.
And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.
In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.
I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.
I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.
The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.
Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.
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