Barbara Stanwyck Quotes
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~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don`t care what happened before. I don`t even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I`ll take it in those fifteen minutes.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
During Double Indemnity (1944), Fred MacMurray would go to rushes [viewings of daily completed shots]. I remember asking Fred, "How was I?" [Fred's response was] "I don't know about you, but I was wonderful!" Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
Treat your child-care worker as you want your boss to treat you; with respect, professionalism, adherence to policies and prompt payments.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
No stench bomb ever made people walk out of a theater as fast as that picture did.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
Attention embarrasses me. I don`t like to be on display.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
It`s perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it`s possible to make a success of both marriage and career, even though I didn`t. But it`s not a bad future. And I`m not afraid of it.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
I couldn`t remember my name for weeks. I`d be at the theater and hear them calling, `Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,` and I`d think, `Where is that dame? Why doesn`t she answer? By crickie, it`s me!`
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
The night we were making the scene of the dying ship in the outdoor tank at Twentieth, it was bitter cold. I was 47 feet up in the air in a lifeboat swinging on the davits. The water below was agitated into a heavy rolling mass and it was thick with other lifeboats full of woman and children. I looked down and thought: If one of these ropes snaps now, it's good-by for you. Then I looked up at the faces lined along the rail - those left behind to die with the ship. I thought of the men and women who had been through this thing in our time. We were re-creating an actual tragedy and I burst into tears. I shook with great racking sobs and couldn't stop.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
There`s nothing more fun in the whole world than seeing a child open a present at Christmas. To have a six-year-old boy stroke a bicycle with his eyes and, not daring to touch, turn and ask, `Is it mine, Missy? Really mine?` That`s part of my future. The ...
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
Commenting in 1939 on the fact that her fianc, Robert Taylor, at 28, was four years younger than she, which raised eyebrows then, Stanwyck said: "The boy`s got a lot to learn and I`ve got a lot to teach.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
I wanted to do a Western series, play a really active woman of the Old West, but nobody would buy it. I'm really a frustrated stuntwoman.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
I want to go on until they have to shoot me.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
The motion picture industry retired me five years ago, and the television people weren't knocking my door down. You've read about people being 'besieged with offers?' Well I wasn't one of them.
~ Barbara Stanwyck Quote
