top of page
Quote_1.png
Rod Steiger

"And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!"

Standard 
 Customized
"And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!"

Exlpore more American quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese."

Explore more quotes by Rod Steiger

Quote_1.png
Rod Steiger
"If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?"
Quote_1.png
Rod Steiger
"Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of."
Quote_1.png
Rod Steiger
"I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody."
Quote_1.png
Rod Steiger
"Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know."
Quote_1.png
Rod Steiger
"And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully."
Quote_1.png
Rod Steiger
"I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling."
Quote_1.png
Rod Steiger
"I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was."
Quote_1.png
Rod Steiger
"He saved the production a tremendous amount. Now they did the scene where Omar is on the horse and he's in the deep snow, they went to Finland to do that. That scene they went to Finland for a week. I wasn't around then."
Quote_1.png
Rod Steiger
"'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties."
Quote_1.png
Rod Steiger
"I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that."
bottom of page