28 Quotes by Montgomery Clift
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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
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The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
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Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
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The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
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I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.
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Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.
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James Dean’s death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don’t know why,
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The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?
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The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.
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