A star is only as good as her last picture.

- Barbara Stanwyck

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

- Barbara Stanwyck

The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

- Barbara Stanwyck

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - w…

- Barbara Stanwyck

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

- Barbara Stanwyck

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

- Barbara Stanwyck

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 make-up.

- Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

- Barbara Stanwyck

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…

- Barbara Stanwyck