Take My Eyes and Crush Them

"I've always turned down a lot of scripts. I turned down Wild Rovers. It sounded like Blake Edwards wrote it as a compilation of old Street and Smith western magazines ... I turned down The Wild Bunch, too. What do i need out of crazy Sam Peckinpah? I was down in Durango the same time he was. I was doing Five Card Stud with Dean Martin and we lived much better. Peckinpah's company was living in tents in the desert, with reptiles and spiders and cheap whores crawling around. Who needs that? I turned down Patton, too ... They get very offended when you turn down their scripts. 'What do you mean, you don't want to do it?' they ask. 'Get somebody else,' I say. 'Who do you suggest?' What the hell do i care ..."

"What counts is peace of mind and laughter - especially laughter. I am more than a happy man - I am delighted and astonished at the way things have gone. I don't regret a damn thing. If I had more comfortable shoes on, I'd jump up and down. Had I known how easy acting is as easy as it is, I'd have started sooner. It really is just like being a plumber. You pack your bag, check your tools and do it. I did it at a time because I wanted a square meal. Today it is basically the same."

"Mitchum's massive head has grown, his face sunk- and he looks great. He doesn't look as if he regretted a wrinkle. He seems to be the only movie star who's becoming a more commanding figure as he ages."

"At least I didn't have to grow a beard, fall off horses, or carry people around on my back. That's a hell of a change for me. I didn't have much to say, which is lucky as I can't remember the little I do have to say. And I had a girl at the side of the set who told me when to say 'Why?' Or 'Really?' whenever Cary Grant came to the end of a speech."

"Robert Mitchum, who snipes that the movie should have been called Minnelli's Texas, and says the sets got a lot of fan mail, knew the character of the father very well. He'd met many such men in Maryland, where Bob was a permanent resident .... Bob, who has an indolent image, could have walked through the part, but he didn't ... Throughout the filming, Bob helped the young people enormously, and me too. He spoke from the viewpoint of a veteran actor - and star - and the young people were impressed. He claims that he never sees his own pictures. I personally believe that when the truth comes out after his death, his shameful vice will be revealed. In some dark cellar, a celluloid cache will be discovered. It will be revealed as belonging to the late Robert Mitchum, and it won't be a year's supply of blue films. They'll be the pictures he made, which he would sneak in to see time and again."

"There's nothing to acting,really, as long as you have the grace that you can translate into human terms, if you're not choked up with self consciousness, not impeded by technique. I care. I'm prepared to be totally sacrificial to a picture. I don't care too much about myself, whether I come off well or badly; those are the breaks of the game. But I am concerned about the whole. That's what I'm hired for, to contribute to the total. I'm a people person and I like the whole togetherness of moviemaking, the ambiance, the effort implicit in the manufacture of a film. I care about that .... I really do."

Real sorry I didnt post for a month, I think the winds of war and war and remembrance being always hundreds of comments lots of them really mean and misogynist that I needed a break but I still got a lot of quotes to post too so see u guys in March!