Montgomery Quotes

(on Montgomery Clift) Monty was a great talent, whose acting I always admired. He had extraordinary instincts. His observations about the script were always astute and correct. He would have made a great director, which eventually he wanted to be. "Would you ever direct yourself?," I once asked him. "Are you kidding," he replied. "As a director, I simply wouldn`t put up with all that crap from me." Monty was having problems then. He was full of all kinds of problems, many of them imaginary.

I auditioned for Tigerland and I was furious when I found out that Colin (Farrell) was doing it. But then when I saw the movie, there was nobody else that could make it like Colin made it. He was like this beautiful, beautiful cocktail of Marlon Brando in The Men and Montgomery Clift in Red River. He was sensitive and attitudeish - lawyerish - but at the same time so boyish, so sexual, so misled. He played it beautifully. I could never have done that. After I saw the movie I said, `Okay, I see what I need to learn`."

(on Montgomery Clift) He had so much power, so much concentration. Clift was a complicated man, there`s no question about it. He was a very sweet man, Monty, very emotional.

(on Montgomery Clift) Monty was the most emotional actor I have ever worked with. And it is contagious.

(About Montgomery Clift) The most gorgeous thing in the world and easily one of the best actors.

(About Montgomery Clift): He`s the only person I know that is in worse shape than I am.

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. I saw some movies with Montgomery Clift and James Dean, and I read biographies about them - then Marlon Brando - and I got it in my head that I wanted to be an actor. The first scene I did in an acting class was from In the Boom Boom Room", by David Rabe. I played "Big Al". It was a very violent and emotional scene, and I liked that - I realized I had it in me."

(on working with Montgomery Clift on "From Here to Eternity") The only time I was ever really afraid as an actor was that first scene with Clift. It was my scene, understand: I was the sergeant, I gave the orders, he was just a private under me. Well, when we started, I couldn`t stop my knees from shaking. I thought they might have to stop because my trembling would show. I was afraid he was going to blow me right off the screen.

I didn`t know if my mama was alive or dead for a couple of days. Then, last Thursday morning she called me from Montgomery. She evacuated at the last moment.

I was an Eagles fan growing up, growing up so close to them, watching Jaworski (quarterback Ron) and (receiver) Harold Carmichael and (running back) Wilbert Montgomery, and those guys. So, there`s obviously a tie there for me. Of course, when I was in New York I was able to play them every year down there, and I still have a lot of family and friends back there.

This is going to be a great occasion for the city, ... This is a united effort '” all of us working collectively together to make this a great event for the city of Montgomery, this state and this nation.

It was a fitting tribute to Rosa Parks, ... There`s no question. She means so much, not only to Montgomery and to the state, but to the entire world.

These forces should be adequate to help meet the rights of citizens to walk peaceably and safely without injury or loss of life from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama,

(While officials at the plant said a meltdown is highly unlikely, Sullivan indicated there are weather elements that would be a much likelier source of an evacuation.) One of the most severe hazards in Montgomery County is flooding, ... That is something that we see a great deal of throughout the county.

(Montgomery`s kick was a game second effort, but not enough.) Those guys were in another race, ... We had two world championship finals, if you ask me.

Montgomery is the private school capital of the world,

Sadly, south of here in Montgomery County three weeks ago, we had a fatality of a two-year-old child. (That was) a very preventable fatality. We don`t want to have any more of those,

following the arrest of Rosa Parks, Judge Johnson ruled that African-Americans of Montgomery, Alabama, were acting within their constitutional rights when they organized a boycott of the buses and that Martin Luther King Jr. and others could march from Selma to Montgomery.

Why in the world would high courts want to give deference to a legislature to revoke constitutional rights they have deemed implicit in their interpretation of the constitution. This is disturbing rhetoric from a Montgomery County legislator who`s always been very supportive.

We would be the Montgomery Moose Lodge,

(Despite a lower passing rate, Montgomery said he believes the district is on the right track. One of the first things he plans on doing to improve TAKS scores across the district is to take the current HISD curriculum and make sure kindergarten through 12th grade is perfectly aligned in their material.) What we need to do here is take it to the next level, where we have deep alignment not only in what we teach, but how we teach it, ... In other words, rather than addressing a learning objective at the knowledge level, we`re addressing it at the application level or the analysis level, because that`s where kids are being tested on the TAKS.