Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Saturday, March 25, 2017 – Jimmy Stewart
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Saturday, March 25, 2017 – Jimmy Stewart
The below book about the Jimmy Stewart is a GREAT read!
Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight For Europe, Robert Matzen, Amazon.com
“I’ve always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, “Aren’t you tired of always playing Tracy?” Tracy replied, “What am I supposed to do, play Bogart?” You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.”
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“The great thing about the movies … is-you’re giving people little … tiny pieces of time … that they never forget.”
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“You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant…and you may quote me.”
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“I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients. It will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully.”
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“You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.”
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“Frank called me one day and said, ‘I have an idea for a movie, why don’t you come over and I’ll tell you?’ So I went over and we sat down and he said, ‘This picture starts in heaven’. That shook me.”
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“Clarence: You’ve been given a great gift, George: A chance to see what the world would be like without you.” It’s A Wonderful Life
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“Clarence: You see George, you’ve really had a wonderful life. Don’t you see what a mistake it would be to just throw it away? ” It’s A Wonderful Life
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“I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.”
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“I sort of got into Westerns… It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn’t go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else. “
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“I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.”
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“We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.”
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“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.”
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“My mother approved, my father just didn’t accept the idea of my being an actor. I think that’s the reason he kept the hardware store in operation, because I think he was pretty sure that I was going to be found out sooner or later, and he wanted to have a job for me to come back to.”
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“I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for.” An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
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“If we don’t try we don’t do. And if we don’t do, what are we on this earth for?” Shenandoah
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“There’s not much I can tell you about this war. It’s like all wars, I guess. The undertakers are winning.” Shenandoah
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“Don’t believe everything you hear and only half of what you see.” The Greatest Show on Earth
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“Liberty is too precious to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say, ‘I’m free.’” Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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“He used to say to me, “Have you ever noticed how grateful you are to see daylight again after coming through a long dark tunnel?”…Always try to see life around you as if you’d just come out of a tunnel.” Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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“You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money! Well, it doesn’t, Mr. Potter! In the whole vast configuration of things, I’d say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider!” It’s A Wonderful Life
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“I’ve always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, “Aren’t you tired of always playing Tracy?” Tracy replied, “What am I supposed to do, play Bogart?” You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.”
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“I’d like people to remember me as someone who was good at his job and seemed to mean what he said.”
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“If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had – their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage. The vogue for the new kind of western seems pretty unimportant to me. They try to destroy something that has been vital to people for so long.”
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“I suppose people can relate to being me, while they dream about being John Wayne.”
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“I cannot tell you, Mr President, just how happy I am to finally be able to call you my Commander-in-Chief.” — to longtime friend Ronald Reagan, on his inauguration as US President on 1/20/81.
Wikipedia: Jimmy Stewart
Lessons in Manliness: Jimmy Stewart – The Art of Maniless
Life with Jimmy Stewart: A War Hero Comes Home, 1945, Life Magazine
