Top 39 Ruth Gordon Quotes
#1. Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
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#2. Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
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#3. Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.
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#4. To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.
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#5. At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.
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#6. Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.
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#7. Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.
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#9. Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.
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#10. The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
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#11. I never got a job I didn't create for myself.
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#12. If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
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#13. Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
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#14. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.
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#16. You have to have a talent for having talent.
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#17. If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
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#18. Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.
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#19. Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
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#20. I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.
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#21. The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing? ...
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#22. In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.
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#23. When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.
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#24. Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
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#25. A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.
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#26. Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?
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#27. In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
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#28. I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!
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#29. Acting is the use of human experience with talent added ...
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#31. Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.
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#32. So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
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#33. Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
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#34. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.
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#35. My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.
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#36. Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.
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#37. Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
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#38. I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.
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#39. Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
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