Montgomery Clift Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Montgomery Clift:

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
~Montgomery Clift


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/montgomery-clift-quotes/#00fe0960

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
~Montgomery Clift


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/montgomery-clift-quotes/#7f872c3c

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.
~Montgomery Clift


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/montgomery-clift-quotes/#4a93fe06

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
~Montgomery Clift


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/montgomery-clift-quotes/#fcf07d84

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