Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyckwas an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth16 July 1907
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.
A star is only as good as her last picture.
I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.
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!
I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.
The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.