19 Quotes by John Garfield

There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.

There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?

I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.

I know a playwright with a forty-thousand-dollar house in Beverly and he's miserable.

I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.

I did a lot of jobs when I was a kid - paper boy, grocery boy, all those things. I guess maybe I got a point of view then.

Reading is important.

England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't think criticism is a valid one because, in defense of Hollywood, we have censorship problems England doesn't have. I'm not speaking of the license to do sexy stuff. I'm speaking of the license to present adult ideas and viewpoints, which we lack and which means in turn that many of our pictures lack intelligent content.

With my brains and your looks, we could go places.