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Barbara Stanwyck

  • “Egotism — usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.”

    • Barbara Stanwyck,
    • in Reader's Digest ()

  • “[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.”

    • Barbara Stanwyck,
    • in Reader's Digest ()

  • “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 damn thing — I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.”

    • Barbara Stanwyck,
    • in Gary Herman, The Book of Hollywood Quotes ()

  • “A star is only as good as her last picture.”

    • Barbara Stanwyck,
    • 1930, in Al DiOrio, Barbara Stanwyck ()

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

    • Barbara Stanwyck,
    • 1941, in Al DiOrio, Barbara Stanwyck ()

  • “[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.”

    • Barbara Stanwyck,
    • in Boze Hadleigh, Hollywood Babble On ()

  • “Just be truthful — and if you can fake that, you've got it made.”

    • Barbara Stanwyck,
    • in Ronald Warren Deutsch, Inspirational Hollywood ()

Barbara Stanwyck, U.S. actor

(1907 - 1990)

Real name: Ruby McGee Stevens.