Souls for Sale (1923)
Richard Dix: Frank Claymore
Quotes
-
Frank Claymore : Comedy is 10 times as hard as tragedy and must be played more earnestly.
-
Frank Claymore : Don't try to act funny. Just *feel* funny. The camera photographs exactly what you are thinking of.
-
Frank Claymore : If you could only cry like this for the screen! The public pays a higher price for tears than for smiles.
-
Frank Claymore : I'll make an actress of you if I have to break your heart and every bone in your body.
-
Frank Claymore : I can't offer you much except hard work and the privilege of being torn to pieces by the critics. But I'll build your soul to its height--and sell it for you to the world, if you'll let me.
Remember 'Mem' Steddon : I'm proud to have you love me, but you mustn't--you mustn't.
-
Frank Claymore : The thing to do is to *feel* the emotion. And, for Heaven's sake don't make faces.
-
Frank Claymore : I'm a little nervous about coming into your nice little prison. According to some people you ought to keep us here.
-
Owen Scudder : Well, what are you going to do with me?
Frank Claymore : Turn you over to the police.
Remember 'Mem' Steddon : No--no--think of the publicity--the newspapers! You said yourself that scandal was fatal to an actress!
Frank Claymore : You don't want me to turn this thug loose?
-
Frank Claymore : Keep grinding till it gets too hot for the cameras.
-
Frank Claymore : Mem, darling, but can you play one more scene?
Remember 'Mem' Steddon : Anything--anything--you want me to.
-
Frank Claymore : Holby, I'd be much obliged if you'd leave that nice little girl alone.
Tom Holby : What's it to you?
Frank Claymore : None of your damned business.
-
Frank Claymore : When an actor gets into trouble, they blame the screen. A scandal is fatal to any one in the moving pictures.