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
I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.
Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.
Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!
Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.
Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.