quotes

View Quote [voice over, opening lines] My mother made me promise to be an artist. She taught me that imagination can take a person anywhere. Mine took me from Indiana, to Broadway, to Hollywood. She was right.

View Quote [voice over] I decided to move to New York. Every actor I cared about, Brando, Clift, even Whitmore, all worked in New York. New York was big and lonely. I loved it. Being a struggling actor in New York in the nineteen fifties was the best, it was the right place at the right time. Stop worrying about my mother and father for a while. I was dead broke, didn't matter, cause I was home.

View Quote [On the set of Giant] You know, you keep me waiting for hours preparing for some scene. You never get around for shooting. Cause I ain't working today. And you do it again, I'm gonna take two days and than three.

View Quote I'm playing the drums! Go to hell!. See I'm an actor cause it's the best way I know how to express myself.

View Quote I don't want to be just good. I want to be great.

View Quote [To Pier Angeli] Tell Vic Damone and your crazy mother, to stay out of our lives!

View Quote I'm not even interested in this glitzy glamour crap! All right! If you wanna wear monkey suits! That's fine! Not me!