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
[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
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.
Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.
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!
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.
[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.
A star is only as good as her last picture.
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.
I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
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.
The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.