Billie Burke Quotes

#1. Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

William Peter Blatty

#2. A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.

Billie Burke

#3. I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

Billie Burke

#4. Twins are so practical. It's always nice to have a spare.

Billie Burke

#5. The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

Billie Burke

#7. Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

Billie Burke

#8. Age is of no importance unless you're a cheese.

Billie Burke

#9. Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese ...

Billie Burke

#10. If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

Billie Burke

#11. But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

Billie Burke

#12. I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.

Billie Burke

#13. It seems to me that the most fundamental mistake most parents make with children is to expect them to be grateful. Children are never grateful ... The 'sacrifices' you made were not for them, they were for you.

Billie Burke

#14. God knows better than we do what we need.

Victor Hugo

#15. I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts

#16. I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.

Louise Rennison

#17. Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again.

Hanley Ramirez

#18. There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

Billie Burke

#19. A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Billie Burke

#20. To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

Billie Burke

#21. Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Billie Burke

#22. Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

Billie Burke

#23. We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together.

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