Montgomery Clift Quotes

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Montgomery Clift

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
Montgomery Clift

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
Montgomery Clift

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
Montgomery Clift

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Montgomery Clift Quotes

Type: Actor Quotes Category: American Actor Quotes Date of Birth: October 17, 1920 Date of Death: July 23, 1966 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Montgomery Clift Related Authors: John Wayne Will Rogers Bruce Lee Jack Nicholson Dean Martin Clint Eastwood Richard Pryor Will Smith Dom DeLuise	Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. Montgomery Clift Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor. Montgomery Clift The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom. Montgomery Clift The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. Montgomery Clift