Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Montgomery Clift

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Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Edward Montgomery Clift was an American actor. A four-time Academy Award nominee, The New York Times said he was known for his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men".

American - Actor | October 17, 1920 - July 23, 1966

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The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

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.

Montgomery Clift

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Montgomery Clift

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Montgomery Clift

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

Montgomery Clift

The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

Montgomery Clift

Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

Montgomery Clift

The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

Montgomery Clift

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

Montgomery Clift

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

Montgomery Clift

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

Montgomery Clift

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

Montgomery Clift

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

Montgomery Clift

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

Montgomery Clift

A man should be what he can do.

Montgomery Clift

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

Montgomery Clift

I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

Montgomery Clift

Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Montgomery Clift

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