Disable ads!

15 quotes by Erich von Stroheim

Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most notable as being a film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.
Read full biography of Erich von Stroheim →

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

0

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

0

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next... →

0

And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my... →

0

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life... →

0

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

0

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

0

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living... →

0

I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

0

Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.

0

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

0

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

0

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern... →

0
Add a quote!
Background photo by Giuliana