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Vote: | After the awards, I didn't win, my father called me up and told me that the man from Johnstown had put all kinds of signs in the theatre saying, 'This year's Academy Award winner... ' because my father had said I was going to win. And I didn't. But this guy asked if it would be alright if he took the Oscar and put it in the lobby and put a sign saying, 'This is what it would look like if he had won'. |
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Vote: | All the senators were there, and Frank Capra was in a box with his wife with the vice president and his wife, and several other senators. They, as the picture started going, became very quiet. After the picture had been going for three quarters of an hour, the film broke. Frank didn't know where the projection room was exactly, and he found himself outside the building, crawling up a ladder. |
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Vote: | Film itself is very technical, and I think you need this period when things are a little out of control for it to work right. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | He called me up saying, 'What's all this I hear about you making a dirty picture?' |
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Vote: | I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting. |
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Vote: | I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets. |
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Vote: | I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time. |
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Vote: | I'm beginning to believe that, in films, what everyone is striving for is to produce moments - not a performance, not a characterisation, not something where you get into the part - you produce moments that create a feeling of believability to what you're doing. |
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Vote: | If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little. |
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Vote: | It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all. |
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Vote: | It's much easier, for example, to play a heroin addict and you're withdrawing - you tear the ceiling off - that's much easier than it is to come in and say, 'Hello.' Or, 'I love you'. When you judge it in that way, the heavy isn't as difficult. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Not all of us were working at the same time, but enough of us... Hank Fonda knew how to cook rice. We lived pretty much on a rice diet. |
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Vote: | One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses. |
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Vote: | This was the time of training, when you were learning your craft, and I don't think that you can work too hard at that particular time. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show. |
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Vote: | William Wyler has always been famous for taking a lot of takes. There is this story that he did this scene with a bunch of very competent people, a very important scene in the movie, and he'd already done it thirty times. One of them came to Willie and said, 'I want to know what we're doing wrong. What do you want us to do?' And Willie said, 'No, you're doing it fine. I'm just waiting for something to happen'. |
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There are several individuals by the name of James Stewart.
The best-known James Stewart of modern times is the Hollywood movie star of the name, widely known as "Jimmy" Stewart.
An English actor whose real name was James Stewart was told by the Screen Actors Guild to change it in order to avoid confusion with the other actor; he became famous under the name Stewart Granger.
In history, the name has been held by several members of the royal family of Scotland, including the kings; and the ones who became King of Scotland and England:
*James I of Scotland
*James II of Scotland
*James III of Scotland
*James IV of Scotland
*James V of Scotland
*James VI of Scotland/James I of England
*James VII of Scotland/James II of England
Although the name of this royal family was historically spelled both Stewart and Stuart, the latter spelling is most common in contemporary usage.
Other James Stewarts:
*James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn (~1383 - >1451)
*James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1499-1544)
*James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1531-1570)
*James Stewart, Earl of Arran (died 1595) see Lord Ochiltree
*James Francis Edward Stuart or Stewart (1688-1766 "The Old Pretender")
*James Stewart, 4th Duke of Lennox
*James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond
*James Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records
*James Stewart, Congressman from North Carolina
*James Stewart, Australian rower
See also James Stuart
...(more on Wikipedia)
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