Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Van Heflin - Page 2

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

I think television will do the same thing to radio that talkies did to silent movies.

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I just don't have the looks and if I don't do a good acting job, I look terrible.

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Sometimes when an actor returns to work after three or four years in service, he is assigned inferior roles because the studio claims popularity has to be built again.

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I don't want to be painted any one color and that can happen to you in Hollywood if you make a hit in a particular role.

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You must remember that I won an Oscar for my role Johnny Eager. Then I went into the Army. But before I did, I was rushed into three other pictures to capitalize on the first.

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Acting is a full-time job for me.

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Acting is wonderful. I love it.

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Once the Europeans become interested in you they make it a point to learn everything they can about your personal and professional life.

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I think it's all right for an actor to appear on television as a guest maybe three or four times a year. Perhaps to preview a future movie or a play.

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I read scripts movie, TV and theater. I read every novel that is published. I read every book that comes out on the theater or the movies, including the technical ones.

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I get $100,000 a picture and if I don't work, that means that's $100,000 I don't make.

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I don't believe in letting the advertising business get a stranglehold on the entertainment industry.

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I was a 'name' in Europe because the type of picture I appeared in and the characters I played had a special appeal for them.

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I'm happy for all the small things a man never gets around to putting his finger on - the things we take for granted.

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An actor doesn't have a regular job. He is dependent upon the roles which are given him.

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I don't want to fall into any single category. I don't want to be known for portraying drunks or heavies or saints.

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Entertainment is a good enough product to sell on its own merits. Why should it be given away free to help somebody sell tires or toothpaste?

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People will always want to get together in groups at plays and have the contagious thing of someone laughing with them.

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I certainly don't approve of American actors who go to Europe and run down Hollywood.

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When a man has a wife and three youngsters he's not going to give up a well-paying job.

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Take these actors who adhere to a rigid schedule. They will say they are going to do two pictures a year or three or one. Now any actor who does that is in business, not in art.

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I started out in Hollywood and I owe a certain amount of loyalty to both the American movie industry and this country.

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When you give people something for nothing for awhile and then try to sell them some of that same thing, consciously or not, they resent it.

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The hard part of not working is occupying the mind. If an actor doesn't work, he grows stale.

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What I like about the independent field is that an actor can pick his roles and his stories and do them without anyone always telling him what he can and can't do.

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You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.

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Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.

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