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The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

~Montgomery Clift

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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

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Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

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The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

~Montgomery Clift

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: October 17th, 1920

Died: July 23rd, 1966

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