Otto Preminger Quotes

I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.

I would love Jimmy Stewart to play my life story.

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

I love Al Pacino.

I always fancied someone might call me 'Red,' like Katherine Hepburn.

To be playing Joan Crawford is as good as it gets.

In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.

Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on…there was something touching and appealing about her.

Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film!

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.

I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.

Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.

For as long as I can remember, my acting crush has been Meryl Streep.

You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.

Working with Sylvester Stallone is beyond a 'pinch yourself' moment. I remember growing up watching his films.

Marilyn Monroe was a fabulous dame - fabulous.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.

I have this ongoing obsession with Meryl Streep.

Frasier will always hold a special place in my heart. He's a great character I Ioved playing, and he's still a wonderful part of my life. But he was a lot of work!

One of my favorite credits is to say that I worked behind Marilyn Monroe, and I love saying that. She was phenomenal.

Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.

Michael Keaton is amazing. He's one of my favorite actors. To get to work with him was a privilege and really was a wonderful thing.