Barbara Stanwyck Quotes

Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress, model, and dancer. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. After a short, but notable, career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.

Orphaned at the age of four, and partially raised in foster homes, by 1944, Stanwyck had become the highest-paid woman in the United States. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress four times - for Stella Dallas , Ball of Fire , Double Indemnity , and Sorry, Wrong Number . For her television work, she won three Emmy Awards - for The Barbara Stanwyck Show , The Big Valley , and The Thorn Birds . Her performance in The Thorn Birds also won her a Golden Globe.

She received an Honorary Oscar at the 1982 Academy Award ceremony, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1986. She was also the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the American Film Institute , the Film Society of Lincoln Center , the Los Angeles Film Critics Association , and the Screen Actors Guild . Stanwyck received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, and was ranked as the 11th greatest female star of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute.

✵ 16. July 1907 – 20. January 1990
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Famous Barbara Stanwyck Quotes

“I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.”

Quoted in Gary A. Yoggy, Back in the saddle: essays on Western film and television actors (1998), Page 122 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pLbMzGDhTOIC&pg=PA122&dq=%22%22tough+old+broad+from+Brooklyn%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=43MyT7SXD6Lc4QTqxMCEBQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22%22tough%20old%20broad%20from%20Brooklyn%22%22&f=false

“People talk about 'my career,' but 'career' is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt very privileged to be paid for what I love doing.”

As quoted in "Barbara Stanwyck: 'I'm a Tomorrow Woman" by Aljean Harmetz, The New York Times (March 22, 1981), p. A1

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