The top 10 most inspiring quotes by James Mason
- In a noisy world, he spoke quietly and, yet, his voice will be remembered by millions who never knew him.
- How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor.
- I’m a character actor: the public never knows what it’s getting by way of a Mason performance from one film to the next. I therefore represent a thoroughly insecure investment.
- He’s my style. Renoir’s good for actors. Renoir obviously loves actors and understands actors, and The Grand Illusion (1937), which I saw recently, is so modern that it could have been made this year – the acting and the staging of it are absolutely modern and true.
- He was always a director who got as much out of actors as could possibly be gotten. And he could stage individual scenes as well as they could possibly be staged. If he had a weakness, which I admit he has, it was that he didn’t have a sufficiently keen story sense.
- I purposely would not go and see the old version of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). They told me my part was played by Claude Rains, for whom I have an infinite admiration, and I knew I would never be as good as him.
- Having been fascinated by the Alan Ladd phenomenon, I now had the opportunity to study it at close quarters. It turned out that he had the exquisite coordination and rhythm of an athlete, which made it a pleasure to watch him when he was being at all physical.
- You can see from the way he uses actors that he sees them as animated props. He casts his films very, very carefully and he knows perfectly well in advance that all the actors that he chooses are perfectly capable of playing the parts he gives them, without any special directorial effort on his part. He gets some sort of a charge out of directing the leading ladies, I think, but that’s something else.
- In some of her films she showed talent which was very comic and touching. Touching because she played with a bright smile and a great spirit, while the situation was rather dramatic, even tragic perhaps. She had in fact a quality which can only be compared to Charles Chaplin’s heartbreaking quality: always optimistic, always gay, always inventive, against poverty, against desperate situations – and that’s when Judy is at her best.
- The trouble with Hollywood is that the producers and agents are the aristocrats… which made actors who make their living in Hollywood usually feel they are some sort of scum. They looked for other means of showing off and were great on rallies for political candidates.
James Mason, born on May 15, 1909, in Huddersfield, England, was a distinguished British actor renowned for his rich voice and magnetic screen presence.
Initially studying architecture at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he discovered a passion for acting and began his career on the British stage in the early 1930s. Mason transitioned to film with roles in “The Man in Grey” (1943) and “The Seventh Veil” (1945), becoming one of the UK’s top box-office draws during the 1940s.
In the 1950s, Mason moved to Hollywood, earning critical acclaim for performances in films such as “A Star Is Born” (1954), “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (1954), and “North by Northwest” (1959). He received three Academy Award nominations: for “A Star Is Born,” “Georgy Girl” (1966), and “The Verdict” (1982).
Mason’s career spanned over five decades, encompassing more than 100 films. He passed away on July 27, 1984, in Lausanne, Switzerland, leaving behind a legacy as one of cinema’s most versatile and compelling actors.
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