64 Quotes by Sterling Hayden

I always hated acting but I kept on acting.

For us to support the liquidation of a simple life in a large part of the world is not a particularly attractive prospect.

I felt reluctant accepting the very lucrative and easy life Hollywood had offered me. All of it planted a seed: If I could do something about the conditions of the world, I could probably justify my position as an actor.

I think my opinion of Hollywood must stem from my own, philosophy as a man.

I am an expert in loneliness and have wandered around a great deal.

Out of 35 pictures I made, 30 were ridiculous.

I work in pictures when I have to. In 1979 that was one day's work.

When I was a kid and getting paid to stand in front of a camera. I used to spend a lot of my time just laughing inside about the whole thing. It wasn't real to me. I couldn't act and I damn well knew it. I kept expecting someone to see the joke and call the whole thing off at any moment. Fortunately, no one ever did.

It's a presumptuous thing to write one's autobiography, but this is really an effort in the deepest sense to explore the struggle of a tortured individual to be himself in a hostile society.