Auntie Mame Quotes

#1. I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#2. The saint and the sinner are twin brothers ... one was born but the moment before the other.

Khalil Gibran

#3. Because you happen to be a writer doesn't mean you have to deny yourself the ordinary human pleasure of being praised and applauded.

Philip Roth

#4. I would have run away
Into the forest
To live in a nest
Made of dreams
And green leaves

Margarita Engle

#5. They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

Stephen Sondheim

#6. Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?

Bruce Bawer

#7. With a brain working and a body working one could keep step with the crowd and never be found out for the hollow machine, lacking the essential thing, that one was conscious of being.

Virginia Woolf

#8. The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.

Barton Gellman

#9. French martinis or lemon drops or cosmos and impromptu viewings of Auntie Mame (the Rosalind Russell version, not the Lucille Ball version) or Steel Magnolias.

Kristen Ashley

#10. I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.

Paul Banks

#11. Auntie Mame, who was the british lady?
'Oh, she's from Pittsburgh'
'But she had the acc-'
'Well, when your from Pittsburgh you gotta do something

Audrey Hepburn

#12. Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death. Auntie Mame

Patrick Dennis

#13. She thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

Patrick Dennis

#14. Morning, I soon discovered, was one o'clock for Auntie Mame. Early Morning was eleven, and the Middle of the Night was nine.

Patrick Dennis

#15. Why darling, I'm your Auntie Mame!

Patrick Dennis

#16. She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget.

Patrick Dennis