Fay Wray Quotes

• As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That’s the same as advice, isn’t it?

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Book, Collection

• Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that’s where he wanted to be.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, Thought

• Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Actually, Released

• Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wonderful, Audience, Secure

• Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn’t get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Direction, About

• For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perfect, Terrible, Things

• He was just trying to tease me – I knew that later – but he said he’d have to leave because it wasn’t fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Good, Trying

• I don’t know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn’t get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Response, Letters, Book

• I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Perfectly, Studio

• I think to have done ‘Titanic’ would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Good, Happy, Think

• I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Talented, Happy, Believed

• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Excited, Secret

• I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Written, Anything

• It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Developed, Better

• Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Thought, Position

• It was so satisfying for me – a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautifully, Great, Imagine

• Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friend, Good

• My children didn’t when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Enough, Thought

• Only in your imagination can you revise.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revise, Imagination

• My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It’ll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Scene, Feelings

Fay Wray (33)

Birth:	15th September, 1907
Death:	8th August, 2004
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Fay Wray was born in Cardston, Alberta, Canada. She was a Canadian-born American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international renown as an actress in horror movie roles. She was one of the first "scream queens". Her role in several films include: King Kong, The Coast Patrol, The Most Dangerous Game, Doctor X, Mystery of the Wax Museum, The Vampire Bat, The Wedding March, Viva Villa!, Tammy and the Bachelor, Woman in the Dark, The Bowery, One Sunday Afternoon, Adam Had Four Sons, The Finger Points, Behind the Make-Up, Thunderbolt, Summer Love, Queen Bee, and Small Town Girl.

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