Fay Wray Quotes

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Making, Horror, Wanted

• When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they’d cut that in and add it.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Finished, About, Picture

• When it was over my daughter said, ‘Oh, I felt so sorry for him – he didn’t want to hurt you, he liked you.’ That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Visualize, Daughter, Sorry

• Well, the Empire State was about 40′ high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2′ high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proportion, Model, Little

• They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they’d let me down and re-organize things.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Considerate, Thing, Organize

• There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Horizontal, Above, Pulling

• There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Strength, Hollywood

• The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I’d plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Enough, Wanted

• That was’ one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Technique, Himself, Created

• Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sometimes, Imagine, Thing

• So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn’t too comfortable all the time in those. I didn’t really care for them.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Care, Horror, Comfortable

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Related, Really

• Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn’t have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn’t work with people who laughed at him!

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Terrible, Particularly

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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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