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Charles Laughton
8 quotes
“I knew in a flash Gary had something I should never have. It is something pure and he doesn't know it's there. In truth, that boy hasn't the least idea how well he acts.”
Charles Laughton (1899–1962) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Gary Cooper, during the production of Devil and the Deep (1932). Attributed in Lary Swindell, The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980) p. 144
“They can't censor the gleam in my eye.”
Charles Laughton (1899–1962) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the revised script of The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934). Attributed in Bob Thomas, Thalberg: Life and Legend (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969) p. 260
“Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it. It's the perfect mummers' home. If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.”
Charles Laughton (1899–1962) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in The New York Times (February 1935). Reported in Kurt Singer, The Laughton Story (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co, 1954) pp. 60–61
“[I have a face that would] stop a sundial and frighten small children into fits.”
Charles Laughton (1899–1962) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in J. P. McEvoy, "The Almost Incredible Laughton", The Atlanta Constitution, vol. 75, no. 119 (11 October 1942) pp. 14, 16
“I have a face like the behind of an elephant.”
Charles Laughton (1899–1962) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in Kurt Singer, The Laughton Story (1954) p. 53
“Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting.”
Charles Laughton (1899–1962) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed by Jack Gleason in Playboy (1962). Reported in Tony Crawley (ed.) Chambers Film Quotes (1991) p. 178
“It's got so that every time I walk into a restaurant, I get not only soup but an impersonation of Captain Bligh.”
Charles Laughton (1899–1962) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the influence of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). Attributed in Leslie Halliwell (ed.) The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1973) p. 112
“All his tough talk is a blind, you know. He's a literate, gracious, kind man, with wonderful manners, and he speaks beautifully — when he wants to.”
Charles Laughton (1899–1962) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Robert Mitchum, in The Night of the Hunter (1955). Attributed in James Robert Parish, The Tough Guys (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1976) p. 305, note