[on Marlon Brando] To my way of thinking, his performance in On the Waterfront (1954) is the best male performance I`ve ever seen in my life.
Elia Kazan
Carmen Jones (1954) was the best break I`ve ever had. But no producer ever knocked on my door. There just aren`t that many parts for a black actress.
Dorothy Dandridge
[on not showing up at the 27th Academy Awards, even though he had been nominated as Best Actor for A Star Is Born (1954) and had agreed to go] The Oscar show is always a little better when things go wrong, so I had no need to feel guilty about letting the...
James Mason
That I survived the first film I did [The Silver Chalice (1954)] was extraordinarily good fortune. I mean, I had dogs chasing me down the street. I was wearing this tiny little Greek cocktail dress - with *my* legs! Good Lord, it was really bad. In fact, ...
Paul Newman
[1954 comment on Judy Holliday] My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she`s so -- so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They`re the best.
Katharine Hepburn
[On his characterization of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954)] "[The role] was actor-proof, a scene that demonstrated how audiences often do much of the acting themselves in an effectively told story."
Marlon Brando
I was 18 when I saw Akira Kurosawa`s Shichinin no samurai (1954). After about 30 seconds, I realized that this was not just a cultural thing, it was universal. Years later, I read Bushido. It talked about many things that I strive for in my own life: loya...
Tom Cruise
Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: "Seven Samurai" (Shichinin no samurai (1954)); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); It`s a Wonderful Life (1946) and The Searchers (1956).
Steven Spielberg
My all time favorite actor is Marlon Brando. I admired how effortless and how real he was in his performance in On the Waterfront (1954). To me, he wasn`t acting. He was living the role. And that`s what I admire about good acting. It`s real."
Luis Guzman
[in 1954] I don`t sing anywhere as good as I used to, and I feel sincerely that it`s getting worse. I don`t see any purpose in trying to stretch something out that was once acceptable and that now is merely adequate, if that. I don`t know what the reason ...
Bing Crosby
I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, The Silver Chalice (1954) and now I`m playing a crusty old man who`s an animated automobile [in Cars (2006)]. That`s a creative arc for you isn`t it?.
Paul Newman
[After accepting the Best Actor Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954) at the 27th Academy Awards ceremony] "I can`t remember what I was going to say for the life of me. I don`t think ever in my life that so many people were so directly responsible for my bei...
Marlon Brando
A movie that I was in, called On the Waterfront (1954): there was a scene in a taxicab, where I turn to my brother, who`s come to turn me over to the gangsters, and I lament to him that he never looked after me, he never gave me a chance, that I could hav...
Marlon Brando
The people leading the split claim they are representing people in the pews, but these are the same people who in 1954 would split the church over our support of Brown v. Board of Education and who would have split the church in 1976 over the issue of wom...
Barbara Lindsay
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.
Vincente Minnelli
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio s...
Johnny Cash
In 1954, cars were bigger and repairing these little bridges was a nuisance. The big bridge came down in 1954. That would have been the seventh bridge,
Audrey Lincoff
In 1954, cars were bigger and repairing these little bridges was a nuisance. The big bridge came down in 1954. That would have been the seventh bridge,
Audrey Lincoff
I was born in 1948. That year, Linda was the most-popular girl`s name. Actually from 1945 to 1954, it was the most-popular name for girls, according to Social Security statistics. There were so many of us when we were kids, in school classrooms there was ...
Ashley Good
I was born in 1948. That year, Linda was the most popular girl`s name. Actually from 1945 to 1954, it was the most-popular name for girls, according to Social Security statistics. There were so many of us when we were kids, in school classrooms there was ...
Ashley Good
I was born in 1948. That year, Linda was the most popular girl`s name. Actually from 1945 to 1954, it was the most popular name for girls, according to Social Security statistics. There were so many of us when we were kids, in school classrooms there was ...
Ashley Good
After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.
Amien Rais
[on Marlon Brando] To my way of thinking, his performance in On the Waterfront (1954) is the best male performance I`ve ever seen in my life.
Elia Kazan
