"I'm trying to be an actor, not a movie star. An actor." — Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift
"The inbred hothouse atmosphere of Hollywood makes you lose contact with the real world. Suddenly real people don’t exist for you." — Montgomery Clift
"He had the face of a saint, but when you looked into his eyes you saw a tortured soul trying to make its way out of utter bewilderment." — Karl Malden
"Clift was a kind of unacknowledged leader. His performances heralded in a new acting style. After Clift came Brando and after Brando, James Dean. But Clift was the purest, the least mannered of these actors, perhaps the most sensitive, certainly the most poetic." — Peter Bodganovich
Montgomery Clift
"The inbred hothouse atmosphere of Hollywood makes you lose contact with the real world. Suddenly real people don’t exist for you." — Montgomery Clift
"He had the face of a saint, but when you looked into his eyes you saw a tortured soul trying to make its way out of utter bewilderment." — Karl Malden
"Clift was a kind of unacknowledged leader. His performances heralded in a new acting style. After Clift came Brando and after Brando, James Dean. But Clift was the purest, the least mannered of these actors, perhaps the most sensitive, certainly the most poetic." — Peter Bodganovich
