Preceding Quotes

(on how he was cast as the monster in "The Curse of Frankenstein") I was asked to play the creature chiefly because of my size and height which had effectively kept me out of many pictures I might have appeared in during the preceding ten years. Most British stars flatly refused to have me anywhere near them in a film, because I was easily the tallest man around.

(on playing Rhett Butler) I discovered that Rhett was even harder to play than I had anticipated. With so much of Scarlett preceding his entrance, Rhett`s scenes were all climaxes. There was a chance to build up to Scarlett, but Rhett represented drama and action every time he appeared. He didn`t figure in any of the battle scenes, being a guy who hated war, amid he wasn`t in the toughest of the siege of Atlanta shots. What I was fighting for was to hold my own in the first half of the picture - which is all Vivien`s - because I felt that after the scene with the baby, Bonnie, Rhett could control the end of the film. That scene where Bonnie dies, and the scene where I strike Scarlett and she accidentally tumbles down stairs, thus losing her unborn child, were the two that worried me most.

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

And as every state of a simple substance is a natural consequence of its preceding state, so that the present state of it is big with the future.

There was more examination with respect to the relationship between Nicole Brown Simpson and Mr. Simpson in the year-and- a-half preceding her death.