Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990)
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| Homina homina homina. |
�During Double Indemnity, Fred MacMurray would go to rushes. I remember asking Fred, �How was I?� [He said], �I don�t know about you, but I was wonderful.� Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves.�
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| Leading Fred MacMurray straight to hell in Double Indemnity (1944). |
�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 makeup.�
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| Playing Henry Fonda for a sap in The Lady Eve (1941). |
�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.�
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| Teaching Gary Cooper some bad habits in Ball of Fire (1941). |
�Career is too pompous a word. It was a job and I have always felt priveleged to be paid for doing what I love doing.�