Barbara Stanwyck Quotes

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

You want the story of my life?
Big ideas, small results.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

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

A star is only as good as her last picture.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

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

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.