Patricia Bosworth Quotes

• “One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game.”

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• “I can’t defend this position, but I think I take photographs because there are things that nobody would see unless I photographed them.”

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• “Once out of work, Monty, like many actors, lost his confidence, and his sense of identity.”

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• “Aristocracy was linked to a nobility of mind, a purity of spirit, as well as inexhaustible courage.”

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• “In close-up, Monty was absolutely riveting. One was practically absorbed into his eyes, which were clearly formidable and perhaps his best asset as an actor. Large, grey, infinitely expressive in his beautiful but rather deadpan face, they could register yearning, intelligence, and despair in quick succession”

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• “Few people have the imagination for reality.”

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• “Every form correctly seen is beautiful.”

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• “As far as she was concerned, aristocracy had nothing to do with money or social position. Aristocracy was linked to a nobility of mind, a purity of spirit, as well as inexhaustible courage.”

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• “The camera is an instrument of detection…we photograph what we know and what we don’t know… when I point my camera at something I am asking a question and the photograph is sometimes an answer… In other words, I am not trying to prove anything. I am the one who is getting the lesson.”

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