Fay Wray Quotes
"At the premiere of King Kong I wasn't too impressed. I thought there was too much screaming...I didn't realise then that King Kong and I were going to be together for the rest of our lives, and longer...".
"As soon as I got off the boat, a man met me and said, 'Will you please come up to the BBC studios and scream for us?'" [On her trip to England in 1934] (2004)
"I have come to believe over the years that Kong is my friend" (2004)
"I have no advice for them". [In reference to the King Kong remake and speaking in 2004]
"My scream was a product of pure imagination. I had to imagine what was happening to me, and I imagined that the nearest help was far away. When I first saw the picture I thought the screams were overdone. But they were an important part of the picture and I was delighted with how it all looked. My scenes with King were exactly the way I imagined them" (2004) [In reference to King Kong (1933)]
"One day I was walking through Hyde Park and I overheard a Cockney woman tell her child 'If y' don't behive, I'll 'ave Fay Wrye arter yer'! I couldn't believe it". [During her trip to England in 1934] (2004)
"Right after The Wedding March, everything happened at once. Sound was coming in, and colour was being used for the first time. It was very exciting to be a part of it" (2004)
"She was an lovely actress and I admired her very much. She was a very delicate and elegant lady". [Remembering her time working with Lillian Gish in The Cobweb (1955)] (2004)
"That film changed my life". [In reference to The Wedding March (1928) and speaking in early 2004]
"That movie meant a lot to me, my heart was right up in my throat". [In reference to The Wedding March (1928) and speaking in early 2004]
"That one single movie (King Kong), has reached million of people of all ages, all over the world - and audiences are still fascinated by it today" (2004)
"They put me in a blonde wig for the role". [In reference to her character Ann Darrow in King Kong and speaking in 2004]
"Those horror pictures were the parts I was being offered at the time, and the scream came into play in almost all of them. People today call them classics, that amuses me a little, because I had so many reservations about them when I made them. I though they were much too gruesome". [In reference to
Doctor X,
Mystery of the Wax Museum and
The Vampire Bat and speaking in early 2004]
"Von Stroheim never got treated correctly in Hollywood, but he made me feel very happy" (2004)
"When my youngest daughter first saw the film, she said Kong wasn't trying to hurt you he was just trying to protect you, which was right" (2004) [In reference to King Kong (1933)]
"When we did it, I just thought how lucky I was to be in the movies, where something like this was possible" [In reference to King Kong] (2004)
[In reference to King Kong (1933)] "He (Merion Cooper) called me into his office and showed me sketches of jungle scenes, and told me 'You're going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood.' Naturally, I thought Clark Gable, But then he showed me this sketch of a giant ape up the side of the Empire State Building, he said 'There's your leading man.'" (2004)
[On her favourite screen appearance in The Wedding March (1928)] "I still love that film, Eric Von Stroheim was a wonderful human being, and he took a chance on me. I was only 19 when I did the screen test, but he saw something in me. After 75 years, it's still one of the happiest experiences of my life. And it was a nice part, wasn't it?". (2004)
"All my life I've written something, I've always cared much more about writing than I do about acting." (2004)
"If they don't have it in their hearts, they shouldn't be doing it, but if they do, hey just need to feel their way through it, just like we did so long ago." [In reference to the planned King Kong remake and speaking in early 2004]
"When I shot my scenes Kong wasn't there at all. I had to use my imagination, which was exciting and terrifying at the same time. Acting is about the imagination, that's the great joy of it. But nothing quite like it had been done before, so I was a little nervous about how it would all come together." (2004)
"I was known as the queen of the Bs. If only I'd been a little more selective."
"Every time I'm in New York I say a little prayer when passing the Empire State Building. A good friend of mine died up there."
"When I'm in New York. I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me, or is it vice versa?" (in 1969 interview with the New York Times)
"Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, 'I've been waiting to meet you for half my life" (1993, on not being able to escape her role in "King Kong")
"I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether". [On declining her role in
Titanic]
