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Maureen Stapleton
Lois Maureen Stapleton was an American actress. She received numerous accolades, becoming one of the few actors to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Tony Awards. She also received a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.
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entertainment · American actress (1925–2006) · television actor · film actor · stage actor · actor · also Maureen Stapleton, Lois Maureen Stapleton, Stapleton
Born 21 June 1925 · Died 13 March 2006 · Q230841
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2026· 1 entry
2006· 1 entry
Died 2006-03-13.
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1998· 1 entry
“Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful, just have a back-up profession like welding.'”
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1997· 1 entry
“What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realize that your outfit cost more than your film.”
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1994· 2 entries
“two of the finest gay Americans, two wonderful men that I had the good fortune to be associated with.”
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“Oh, wow. This is the best drink of water after the longest drought of my life.”
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1993· 1 entry
“Tonight I am asking for your help. I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being to prove that we are a human race. To prove that our love outweighs our need to hate. That our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame. That our sensitivity to those in need is stronger than our greed. . . . Thank you and God bless.”
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1991· 1 entry
“I want to thank everybody who makes movies. . . . As a little kid, I lived in the projects, and you're the people I watched. You're the people who made me want to be an actor. I'm so proud to be here.”
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1987· 1 entry
“Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.”
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1985· 2 entries
“I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”
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“I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.”
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1984· 1 entry
Signed a letter protesting German arms sales to Saudi Arabia
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1983· 2 entries
“When I was 19 years old I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40 nobody wanted me.”
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“Gandhi simply asked that we should examine the criteria by which we judge the manner of solving our problems. That surely in the 20th century, we human beings, searching for our human dignity, could find other ways of ultimately solving our problems than blowing the other man's head off. He begged us to reexamine that criteria . . .”
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Reds (1982).
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1981· 1 entry
Hudson Valley Community College in Stapleton's childhood city of Troy, New York, dedicated a theater in her name
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1979· 1 entry
“In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow.”
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1978· 1 entry
“refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression.”
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1976· 1 entry
“being in a mental institution like being in a mental institution.”
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1972· 1 entry
“There's a great deal to say, but I'm not going to say it tonight.”
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (1971).
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1968· 1 entry
And won a second Tony Award for Simon's The Gingerbread Lady, which was written especially for her, in 1971
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1964· 1 entry
“It has been a long journey to this moment.”
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1951· 3 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1951).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (1951).
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(Magnani's English improved, however, and she was able to play the role in the film version, winning an Oscar)
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-06-21.
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