Erich von Stroheim
Actor
1885-09-22 – 1957-05-12
Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-American film actor, director, and screenwriter of the silent era. He is known for films including Greed and for influential work as both a performer and filmmaker. He later became a prominent character actor in European and American cinema.
Quotes by Erich von Stroheim
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Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.
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It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.
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Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.
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For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
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If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
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I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.
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