Claire Bloom - biography

“I don’t enjoy the life of an actress, but I don’t want to go into that.”

“I don’t think actresses’ lives in general are very good.”

“Security has no place in the life of an actress.”

“I had a burning ambition.  Otherwise, I wouldn’t have accomplished it.”

“I am interested in the art.  I’m a professional woman.”

“I’ve spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.”

“In any of the arts, you never stop learning.”

“My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.”

“When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans.  So I have been extremely guarded ever since.”

“Film is different for me now.  If the money is good and it’s not totally revolting, I’ll do it.”

“I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.”

“I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose.  I want to be able to do that until my last breath.  And to do that, you have to have money.”

“I learned from watching and I learned form doing.”

“I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting.  But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.”

“In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.”

“In my day, people didn’t do nude scenes.  I mean they didn’t exist.”

“There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.”

“You can’t pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe.  You really can’t fake that.”

Claire Bloom has appeared in the following films:
The Blind Goddess (1948)
La bergère et le ramoneur (1952)
Limelight (1952)
Innocents in Paris (1953)
The Man Between (1953)
Richard III (1955)
Alexander the Great (1956)
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
The Buccaneer (1958)
Look Back in Anger (1959)
Schachnovelle (1960)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
The Chapman Report (1962)
Il maestro di Vigevano (1963)
80,000 Suspects (1963)
The Haunting (1963)
Alta infedeltà (1964)
The Outrage (1964)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Charly (1968)
The Illustrated Man (1969)
Three Into Two Won’t Go (1969)
A Severed Head (1970)
Red Sky at Morning (1971)
A Doll’s House (1973)
Islands in the Stream (1977)
Beauty and the Beast (1981)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Déjà Vu (1985)
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Pas de deux (1990)
The Princess and the Goblin (1992)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995)
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Daylight (1996)
Wrestling with Alligators (1998)
The Book of Eve (2002)
The Republic of Love (2003)
Imagining Argentina (2003)
Daniel and the Superdogs (2004)
Kalamazoo? (2006)
While We Were Here (2012)