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“Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.”
—Orson Welles

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Not long before she died in 1981 at age 57, Gloria Grahame, who had acted in films signed by Frank Capra, Nicholas Ray, Josef von Sternberg, Vincente Minnelli, Elia Kazan, Fritz Lang, and Fred Zinnemann, demolished them all in one sweeping statement. “Those men never directed me,” she told an English stage director with whom she was currently working. “I’d go home and work on it with my mother, then come in and shoot it, and that would be that.”
—Donald Chase, “Gloria Grahame In Praise of the Naughty Mind,” Film Comment, 1997

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“I have always had a special respect for Kathleen [Byron] ever since she pulled a gun on me. It was a revolver, a big one, U.S. Army issue, and it was loaded. A naked woman and a loaded gun are persuasive objects.”
—Director Michael Powell on his tumultuous relationship with actress Kathleen Byron, via: Million Dollar Movie by Michael Powell, one of the best movie autobiographies ever written.
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“Acting’s just waiting for a custard pie. That’s all.” —Katharine Hepburn

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“He is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon…His image had as much impact in the world as many of our presidents have had, but Duke was a great actor, a great humanitarian, but always himself.” —Elizabeth Taylor
“He is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon…His image had as much impact in the world as many of our presidents have had, but Duke was a great actor, a great humanitarian, but always himself.”
—Elizabeth Taylor

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