James Stewart Quotes
"I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets."
- James Stewart
"One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses."
- James Stewart
(Related: Time, Horses)
"If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little."
- James Stewart
(Related: Career)
"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."
- James Stewart
(Related: Time, Thought, First, Joy, Right, Years)
"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."
- James Stewart
(Related: Architecture, College, Fun)
"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."
- James Stewart
(Related: Desperation)
"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."
- James Stewart
(Related: People, Friend, Man, Play, World)
"I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down."
- James Stewart
(Related: Martin)
"When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best."
- James Stewart
(Related: Kissing)
"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."
- James Stewart
(Related: Movies, Acting)
"I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting."
- James Stewart
(Related: People, Acting, First)
"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."
- James Stewart
(Related: Idea, Day, Heaven)
"I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites."
- James Stewart
(Related: People, Night)