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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.”— Meryl Streep #MerylStreep
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
“I’ve been through hell, and I’m grateful for every minute of it.”—Gene Tierney #GeneTierney
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
“I’ve reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.” —Veronica Lake…
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“Don't give up on yourself. So you make a mistake here and there; you do too much or you do too little. Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.”— Diane Keaton #DianeKeaton
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular."-- Jean Arthur #JeanArthur
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
“I adored Natalie Wood. She was incredibly generous, which not many people in our industry are. She was extremely driven and in charge of her career, yet Natalie had a vulnerability about her.”— Robert Redford #NatalieWood #RobertRedford
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes."-- Jean Harlow #JeanHarlow
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it."-- James Earl Jones #JamesEarlJones
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words."-- Lee Van Cleef #LeeVanCleef
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“If you don't think about men and sex while you're dancing, your body won't say anything."- Vera-Ellen #VeraEllen
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 01/06/2023
“I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.” 🎂Remembering Marilyn Monroe, born on this day June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, CA. #MarilynMonroe
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"The big secret in playing a gangster in movies is to really believe that the character you are playing is doing no wrong." —Steve Cochran #SteveCochran
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
“ I worked hard. It was full of disappointment and joy, discouragement and rewards. I'll be forever grateful for all those wonderful years.”— Robert Montgomery #RobertMontgomery
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.' Remembering Joseph Cotten, born on this day May 15, 1905. #josephcotten
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get only what you are expecting to give which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving."— Katharine Hepburn #KatharineHepburn
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 07/05/2023
“Naturally, the nearer the character you play comes to the character you are, the more authenticity you give it. You are not acting so much as being. The result is realism” 🎉Remembering Gary Cooper, born on this day May 7, 1902 in Helena, Montana. #GaryCooper #BOTD
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 06/05/2023
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best” 🎉Remembering Orson Welles, born on this day May 6th, 1915 in Kenosha, WI. #orsonwelles
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.”-- Norma Shearer #NormaShearer
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.” --Will Rogers #WillRogers
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph."- Harold Russell #HaroldRussell
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 05/04/2023
Remembering Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, born on this day 🎂 in 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors" #spencertracey
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 05/04/2023
“If you have to tell them who you are, you aren’t anybody.”Remembering Eldred Gregory Peck, born on this day 🎂in 1916 in La Jolla, CA. #gregorypeck
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 05/04/2023
"Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good." Remembering Walter Huston, born on this day 🎂in Toronto, Canada in 1883. #walterhuston
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 05/04/2023
"Your word is your bond" Remembering Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg aka Melvyn Douglas, born on this day 🎂in Macon, Georgia in 1901. #melvyndouglas
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
"Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference." --Bette Davis #TCM #BetteDavis
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.”—Doris Day #DorisDay
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
“Singin’ in the Rain and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life”— Debbie Reynolds #TCMParty #DebbieReynolds
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
"Never underestimate your talents, and try not to compare or wish for the talents of others. Focus on and accept the talents you have, and you will find great fulfillment in life"— Jane Powell #TCMParty #JanePowell
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
"The parts I play point out a moral. They show individuals who might have been different if they had been given a different chance"—Lon Chaney #LonChaney
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
“I was born in front of a camera and really don’t know anything else.”—Joan Crawford #JoanCrawford
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 27/02/2023
“Give. Remember always to give. That is the thing that will make you grow”– —Remembering Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, born on this day February 1932. #ElizabethTaylor
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.”—Gene Hackman #GeneHackman
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them." Kathleen Turner #KathleenTurner
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.” Lucille Ball #LucilleBall
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.”--Eva Marie Saint #EvaMarieSaint
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
"I was beastly but never coarse, I high-class sort of heel"- George Sanders #GeorgeSanders
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
"I'm so grateful because I've become more respected as an actress. I think my style of acting is understood now, where it wasn't then, because, at that time in the '50s, I think there was some overacting, making it too broad — too obvious. I just was expressing myself as I…
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"Method actors are like ham."- Clark Gable #ClarkGable
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 16/02/2023
“In my era, we had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I’d whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel with seven red chow dogs to match my hair. Today they’re sensible and end up with better health-but we had more fun.”Clara Bow
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.”— Ida Lupino #IdaLupino
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"I never changed anything, except my socks and my underwear. And I never did anything to glorify myself or improve my lot. I took what came and did the best I could with it."-- Robert Mitchum
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why." -Paul Newman
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them."- Jeffrey Hunter
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"I gave up Hollywood and I gave up pictures because I was always getting parts where I'd be the girl who says, 'Oh, Red!' in a Skelton movie. All I got were princess parts. A girl gets tired of being a princess all of the time."--Janet Blair 1945
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
"That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool."-- Charles Boyer #CharlesBoyer
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
"Physically, I’m not tough. I may think tough. I would say I’m kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards."— Humphrey Bogart #HumphreyBogart
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time." —Ava Lavinia Gardner .#AvaGardner
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“He was purely male without resorting to any of those muscle barbell distortions that ordinary " body beautiful" boys indulge in.”- Joan Crawford about Jeff Chandler #JeffChandler
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
"I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation."—Frank Sinatra #FrankSinatra
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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage."--Gregory Peck #GregoryPeck
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