Mitchum Quotes & Sayings

When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night. — M.I.A.

She was stronger than Stew Mitchum, or maybe she just wanted something more than he did. — Lemony Snicket

I've still got the same attitude I had when I started. I haven't changed anything but my underwear. — Robert Mitchum

After Natalie [Wood] and I got back from our honeymoon, I began The Hunters, with Robert Mitchum, directed by Dick Powell. I adored both of them. Powell was one of the great guys of all time, and Mitchum and I became fast friends. He insisted that I call him "Mother Mitchum." One day we cooked up a juvenile practical joke - we hired a girl to sit on a bench at lunchtime without any underpants on. We were in Arizona, at an Air Force base, and from the reaction you'd have thought the men of the United States Air Force had never seen a woman's private parts before. As word spread, we gradually brought the entire base to a halt. The fact that it was juvenile didn't make it any less funny; actually, it made it funnier. — Robert Wagner

This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it. — Robert Mitchum

Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar I'm always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac on TV, too. — Robert Mitchum

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail. — Robert Mitchum

How do I keep fit? I lay down a lot. — Robert Mitchum

I started out to be a sex fiend, but I couldn't pass the physical. — Robert Mitchum

I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp. — Liam Neeson

The people who can do you the most damage are the ones who are closest to you. — Robert Mitchum

Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it. — Robert Mitchum

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor. — Robert Mitchum

Oh my God ... I worked with George C. Scott, way before 'Chips,' in 'The New Centurion.' I co-star in that movie. It was great working with him. I worked with Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum. Stacy Each. The old Hollywood. I met John Wayne, and that was a thrill. I was working next door to him. — Erik Estrada

Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead. — Robert Mitchum

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way. — Joe Carnahan

I kept thinking of an old Robert Mitchum cowboy movie where he goes back to see the farmhouse where he was born and finds the house falling apart and an old man living in it by himself. "Lonely place," Robert Mitchum says. The old man says, "Nothing wrong with a lonely place as long as it's private. That's why I never married. Marriage is lonely, but it ain't private." That was always my most intense fear about getting married: When everything sucked and I was by myself, I thought, Well, at least I don't have another miserable person to worry about. I figured if you gave up your private place and it still turns out to be lonely, you're just screwed. — Rob Sheffield

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying. — Robert Mitchum

I never take any notice of reviews-unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now. — Robert Mitchum

Let's see, he had told me one night at our hotel's bar, I've been beaten to death with brass knuckles by Robert Mitchum, knifed in the back by Ernest Borgnine, shot in the head by Frank Sinatra, strangled by James Coburn, — Viet Thanh Nguyen

The way I figure it when a man's in love with a girl, He's got a right to ask her to marry him. Any girl, Anybody's girl — Robert Mitchum

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in. — Robert Mitchum

No matter what you do, do your best at it. If your going to be a bum, be the best bum there is. — Robert Mitchum

These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime. — Robert Mitchum

Stars today are just masturbation images. — Robert Mitchum

Movies bore me; especially my own. — Robert Mitchum

I never changed anything, except my socks and my underwear. And I never did anything to glorify myself or improve my lot. I took what came and did the best I could with it. — Robert Mitchum

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben — Ron Koertge

That's true," the male officer said. "Stew Mitchum is as cute as a button."
I tried to think of buttons I'd seen that liked to torture small animals, but I couldn't. — Lemony Snicket

I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady. — Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. — Billy West

The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous of quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity. — Robert Mitchum

I have two acting styles: with and without a horse. — Robert Mitchum

thunder should have rumbled in a Robert Mitchum sky that promised far worse before long. I should have seen tree branches whipping. Heard the plash of drops on stone, sprung shutters whapbapbapping. But the gods had decided to turn on the sun and set it in a Spielberg sky with a thumbs-up sign from Disney. Hello to San Francisco, where the party never stops. — Reb MacRath