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Top 15 Montgomery Clift Quotes (2025 Update)

Montgomery Clift Quote: “Nobody ever lies about being lonely.”

1. “Nobody ever lies about being lonely.”

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “The only line that’s wrong in Shakespeare is ‘holding a mirror up to nature.’ You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.”

2. “The only line that’s wrong in Shakespeare is ‘holding a mirror up to nature.’ You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.”

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “If a man don’t go his own way, he is nothing.”

3. “If a man don’t go his own way, he is nothing.”

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “Look, if you’re playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!”

4. “Look, if you’re playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!”

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “A man should be what he can do.”

5. “A man should be what he can do.”

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.”

6. “The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.”

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary – how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?”

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

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they’re generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us – if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.”

8. “I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they’re generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us – if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.”

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.”

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

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “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 cute baby and that she’s terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?”

10. “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 cute baby and that she’s terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?”

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “Look, I’m not odd. I’m just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.”

11. “Look, I’m not odd. I’m just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.”

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you’ll forget you’re going to die.”

12. “Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you’ll forget you’re going to die.”

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “I don’t want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do – not what we say we are.”

13. “I don’t want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do – not what we say we are.”

— Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Quote: “The thing that bugs me is the average woman’s complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.”

14. “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

Montgomery Clift Quote: “I have enough money to get by. I’m not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.”

15. “I have enough money to get by. I’m not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.”

— Montgomery Clift

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