🎬Classic Off-Screen Quotes: Director Frank Capra

 "Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film."

 

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Lost Horizon (1937)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Meet John Doe (1941)

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 

It Happened One Night (1934)

 

🌟Classic Off-Screen Quotes: Ernest Borgnine

"You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you got nothing."

 

🌟Classic Off-Screen Quotes: Bette Davis

“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.”

🌟Classic Off-Screen Quotes: Greta Garbo

 

   (Caricature Artwork by me. On watercolor paper, Derwent pencils)  

 

 

 

"My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think. I have made enough faces"

⭐Classic Off-Screen Quotes: Tyrone Power

Some day I will show all the motherf**kers who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I’d look like Eddie Constantine. It’s so tiring being everybody’s darling boy at my age … I know I’ve been lucky, that things have gone almost too smoothly career-wise. What I resent about it is that it is all built on a pretty face. Hollywood was such a crazy place, made you feel terrific at times. You felt you could achieve anything because you were treated like a god. But it sure was a bum place too. When you saw the new faces queuing up, like bloody comets, who would strike the screen and leave an old worshiped star obsolete in no time. Nobody will ever understand what this did to people, how it destroyed them, made them hollow … J***s C***t, I don’t want to become an ageless matinée idol, having to keep up my looks, lift my chin like Marlene and never dare smile in case my face cracks. - Tyrone Power

⭐Classic Off-Screen Quotes: Barbara Stanwyck

Stanwyck at Home

"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."
—Barbara Stanwyck

Stanwyck at Home

 

🌟Classic Off-Screen Quotes: Steve Cochran

"I don't act like a hood. I'm basically a decent person and I let this come through in my portrayals. After all, a guy has to make a living some way, even if he's a gangster. With this puss of mine, I could play a corpse and be accused of overacting. The big secret in playing a gangster in movies is to really believe that the character you are playing is doing no wrong."