There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
BARBARA STANWYCKThere is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
BARBARA STANWYCKEgotism – usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCKCareer is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.
BARBARA STANWYCKThe boy’s got a lot to learn and I’ve got a lot to teach.
BARBARA STANWYCKAttention embarrasses me. I don’t like to be on display.
BARBARA STANWYCKPut me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don’t care what happened before. I don’t even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing – I’ll take it in those fifteen minutes.
BARBARA STANWYCKI’m now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCKI’m a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I’m ninety, and they won’t need to paste my face with make-up.
BARBARA STANWYCKIt’s perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it’s possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn’t. But it’s not a bad future. And I’m not afraid of it.
BARBARA STANWYCK[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.
BARBARA STANWYCKI couldn’t remember my name for weeks. I’d be at the theater and hear them calling ‘Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,’ and I’d think ‘Where is that dame? Why doesn’t she answer? By crickie, it’s me!
BARBARA STANWYCKA star is only as good as her last picture.
BARBARA STANWYCKThe more you kick something that’s dead, the worse it smells.
BARBARA STANWYCKEyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it’s nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting – watch the eyes!
BARBARA STANWYCKI’m a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don’t try to make me into something I’m not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
BARBARA STANWYCKMy only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
BARBARA STANWYCK