Quotes by Fay Wray - Page 1

Only in your imagination can you revise.
Fay Wray / Actress
Imagination
Regret
Imagination Your Only
Revise
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
Fay Wray / Actress
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Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?
Fay Wray / Actress
Men
Airline
Juan
Names
Huh
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Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."
Fay Wray / Actress
Boys
Waiting
Years
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There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
Fay Wray / Actress
Clothes
Horizontal
Shots
Above
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When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?
Fay Wray / Actress
New York
Looks
Vices
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
Fay Wray / Actress
Imagine
Rocks
Surfing
Tree
Velvet
Background
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
Fay Wray / Actress
Art
Cabinets
Position
Thinking
Arts
Cabinet
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Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.
Fay Wray / Actress
Empire State
Proportion
Scenery
Size
Empire
Model
Studio
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They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.
Fay Wray / Actress
Considerate
Down And
Fingers
Helping
Time Must Me
Time Me Help
Every Time
Slip
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As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?
Fay Wray / Actress
Advice
Book
Next
Collection
Certainly
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When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
Fay Wray / Actress
Add
Cutting
Finished
Minutes
Rooms
Sound
Steady
Picture
Cut
Screamed
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I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.
Fay Wray / Actress
Work
Ill
Purpose
Series
Thinking
Perfectly
Studio
Robert
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
Fay Wray / Actress
Age
Afterlife
Children
Certain Age
Age Me Children
Hoped
Spot
Well Enough
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I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.
Fay Wray / Actress
Littles
Payment
People
Residual
Tape
People Anything Never
Washington
Early Days
For The People
People Never Anything
Tapes
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
Fay Wray / Actress
Arms
Clean
Elbows
Direction
Washed
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It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
Fay Wray / Actress
Daughter
Great Reward
Mother Daughter
My Daughter
Play
Satisfying
Great Done Me
Beautifully
Directed
Great Me Done
Reward
Susan
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For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
Fay Wray / Actress
Purposes
Strains
Stresses
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
Fay Wray / Actress
Bother
Chief Justice
Related
Above
Chief
John
Marshall
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I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Fay Wray / Actress
Experience
Happy
Done
Feel Good
Joyous
Liberated
Thinking
Life Good Experience
Life Good Done
Now
Free
Altogether
Ever
Life Experience Good
My Life
Titanic
Tortuous
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
Fay Wray / Actress
Aria
Sound
Totally
Charge
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
Fay Wray / Actress
Work
Amusing
Done
Laughed
People
Said
Terrible
Work Done People
Work People Who
Accent
Particularly
Work People Done
Lucas
Paul
Took
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Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable.
Fay Wray / Actress
Art
Men
Ideas
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
Fay Wray / Actress
Attitude
Book
Incidents
Scene
Simple
Simple Things
Attitudes
Few People
Thoughts
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The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.
Fay Wray / Actress
Appropriate
Enough
Producers
Scene
Trusted
Would Be
Ahead
Enough Me More
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I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.
Fay Wray / Actress
Love
Book
Letters
Lovely
Response
Love Me Know
Fell
Poems
Slightest
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That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
Fay Wray / Actress
Time
Faces
Technique
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That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
Fay Wray / Actress
Clutch
Deserted
One Time
Technique
Ugliness
Time Face Me
Absolutely
Admit
Hit
Cover
Himself
Wax
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So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
Fay Wray / Actress
Time
Care
Horror Film
Littles
Series
Gruesome
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Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.
Fay Wray / Actress
Work
Audience
Looks
Moving
Secure
Stage
Theater
Wonderful
Work Me Look
Work Look Me
Grant
Looked
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I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.
Fay Wray / Actress
Doubt
Misery
No Doubt
Talent
Based
Became
Believed
Talented
Saw
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Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.
Fay Wray / Actress
New York
Beautiful
Crush
Party
Beautiful Always Me
Beside
Floor
Beautiful Me Always
Grant
Whenever
York
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
Fay Wray / Actress
Life
Enthusiastic
People
Secret
Writing
Life Love Your
Mostly
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Fay Wray / Actress
Humor
Fun
Good Sense
Sense Of Humor
Tease
Trying
Good Me Fun
Fair
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Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.
Fay Wray / Actress
Time
Clothes
Overhead
Thinking
Views
Time Always Me
Picture
Above
Added
Camera
Time View Me
Released
Subsequently
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When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
Fay Wray / Actress
Daughter
Empire State
Hurt
Mother
Sorry
Victoria
Liked
Empire
Visualize
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It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
Fay Wray / Actress
Quality
Mother
Parent
Produce
Developed
Friendships
Intolerant
Suppose
Qualities
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