James Stewart Quotes, Thoughts and images

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant... and you may quote me.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

We all look the same with our helmets on.

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best.

I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.