28 Quotes by Montgomery Clift

Look, if you’re playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary – how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

Look, I’m not odd. I’m just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they’re generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us – if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you’ll forget you’re going to die.

I don’t want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do – not what we say we are.

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What’s my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she’s terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

If a man don’t go his own way, he is nothing.

The thing that bugs me is the average woman’s complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.