Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
All Quotes by author - Erich von Stroheim
" And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self. "
Me
Because
Self
" As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl. "
Her
Found
Soon
" Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right. "
Feeling
You
Sympathy
" Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality. "
Uniform
Makes
Women
" Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men. "
Sex
She
Real
" For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead. "
Call
Dead
Different
" I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair. "
Enough
Am
Long Hair
" I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality. "
Work
Did
Girl
" If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead. "
Man
Past
Woman
" In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture. "
You
Last
Hollywood
" It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance. "
Past
Life
Home
" I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing. "
Great
Women
Atmosphere
" I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food. "
Food
You
Baby
" Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof. "
Walk
White
First
" The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love. "
Father
Mother
Love
Check our other websites:
BookDark
MusicDark