The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

- Montgomery Clift

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cut…

- Montgomery Clift

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

- Montgomery Clift

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

- Montgomery Clift

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

- Montgomery Clift

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

- Montgomery Clift

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

- Montgomery Clift

Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

- Montgomery Clift

The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

- Montgomery Clift