Montgomery Clift Quotes

There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.

It's a strange thing when someone passes away. It's always when you're not expecting it that you're affected by it. When we first started filming, we were filming with existing characters in a location that we'd never been before.

I guess he was such an open, emotional vessel that I think he tapped into human nature, so it just left people wondering what would have happened. I think James Dean would be 83 today. He could be here, what would he be doing?

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

Though I've been in horror movies, I just can't watch them. The first time I watched a 'Harry Potter' movie, I had nightmares for, like, two weeks.

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Art is meant to disturb.

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

I remember watching the Twin Towers collapse. Because it was another country and looked like a film, I just sort of thought, 'Oh.' I didn't think that much. Then three days later, it hit me. I was in a terrible state, and I was tearful for three or four days.

My style icon has always been Sidney Poitier.

'7 Years' seems to have attracted a lot of age groups - people seem to see their own lives in the song, and it's great to see so many people reacting in that way to it.

I'm very proud of 'Will the Sun Ever Shine Again.' That was a song written very close to the 9/11 event.

You can have 10 nice comments today, and it's that one nasty comment that you're gonna hang on to.

When I look at Stephanie McMahon's entire career, I'm always blown away at how she just moves your soul. Literally, my heart is moved by her. Either I hate her or love her - or love to hate her.

She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice--a fetal smile--and it very nearly killed her.

I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling.

My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.