Sterling Hayden - biography

“I started near the top and worked my way down.”

“I never watch my old films, never have.  I have a blanket I carry around to cover the television set in hotel rooms.”

“Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye was a Raymond Chandler thriller.  I don’t remember a thing about making it as I was smashed at the time.”

“A sailing ship is no democracy; you don’t caucus a crew as to where you’ll go anymore than you inquire when they’d like to shorten sail.”

“Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.”

“I don’t think I’ll have to kill her.  Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that’s all.”

“Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.”

Sterling Hayden has appeared in the following films:
Virginia (1941)
Blaze of Noon (1947)
Manhandled (1949)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Star (1952)
Eagles of the Fleet (1952)
Flaming Feather (1952)
So Big (1953)
Take Me to Town (1953)
Fighter Attack (1953)
Crime Wave (1954)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Prince Valiant (1954)
Suddenly (1954)
Arrow in the Dust (1954)
Shotgun (1955)
The Last Command (1955)
The Killing (1956)
Crime of Passion (1957)
Zero Hour! (1957)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Hard Contract (1969)
Loving (1970)
Le Saut de l’ange (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Final Programme (1973)
Deadly Strangers (1974)
Bertolucci secondo il cinema (1975)
1900 (1976)
Novecento (1976)
King of the Gypsies (1978)
Winter Kills (1979)
Nine to Five (1980)
The Outsider (1980)
Gas (1981)
Venom (1981)