Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift
Edward Montgomery "Monty" Cliftwas an American film and stage actor. The New York Times’ obituary of Clift noted his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men". He is best remembered for roles in George Stevens's A Place in the Sun, a Catholic priest in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess, soldiers in Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternityand Edward Dmytryk's The Young Lionsand a mentally challenged sterilized concentration camp survivor in Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg. He received four Academy Award nominations during...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 October 1920
CityOmaha, NE
CountryUnited States of America
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.
If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.
A man should be what he can do.