Lillian Gish Quotes

#1. You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

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#2. I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

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#3. Never get caught acting.

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#4. As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.

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#5. The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

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#6. It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety
not even joy.

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#7. I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.

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#8. Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.

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#9. I like people to come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do.

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#10. Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

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#11. You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

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#12. What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

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#13. The stage was our school, our home, our life.

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#14. I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.

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#15. Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

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#16. A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

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