The boy’s got a lot to learn and I’ve got a lot to teach.
BARBARA STANWYCK
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.
More Barbara Stanwyck Quotes
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There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
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The more you kick something that’s dead, the worse it smells.
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Egotism – usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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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.
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[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.
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Attention embarrasses me. I don’t like to be on display.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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I’m now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
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A star is only as good as her last picture.
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Just be truthful – and if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
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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.
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It’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