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I’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 Stanwyck

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.
BARBARA STANWYCK

Dull Party Wit
Egotism – usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK

Cases Egotism Mistake
I’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 STANWYCK

Brooklyn Girl Trying
A star is only as good as her last picture.
BARBARA STANWYCK

Good Last Picture Stars
The more you kick something that’s dead, the worse it smells.
BARBARA STANWYCK

Dead Kicks Smell Something
I’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 STANWYCK

Acting Brooklyn Needs
[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.
BARBARA STANWYCK

Body Gone Head
Career 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 STANWYCK

Careers Jobs Women
The boy’s got a lot to learn and I’ve got a lot to teach.
BARBARA STANWYCK

Boys Learn Lot Teach
Put 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 STANWYCK

Care Fifteen Lasts
Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.
BARBARA STANWYCK

Acting Care Stars
Just be truthful – and if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
BARBARA STANWYCK

Fake People Success Truth
Eyes 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 STANWYCK

Acting Eye Great Nice
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
BARBARA STANWYCK

Different Play Way
I 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 STANWYCK

Missing Name Thinking
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
BARBARA STANWYCK

Comedy Tragedy Vulgarity

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