Heflin Quotes

#1. I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.

Kirk Douglas

#2. The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

Lissie

#3. That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

Ellen Glasgow

#4. Don't kill the humans, the zombies, the guys in the dark cloaks or the girls that glow like the sun. Oh, or the crazy old woman with the fingernails growing out of her head.
Rhett

David Estes

#5. Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

Brian Eno

#6. You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.

Van Heflin

#7. Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

Gloria Steinem

#8. Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on my acting.

Van Heflin

#9. Worship helps us to get rid of a lot of life's spiritual and natural frustrations. Through worship God brings to us a wholeness of body, mind and spirit. God is refining our understanding of true worship. True worship comes from the heart, in love and adoration unto the Lord.

Ruth Heflin

#10. Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing.

Elaine Stritch

#11. You don't change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking some one person's place for a while, one suffering person at a time.

Geoffrey Wood

#12. I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.

Kris Kristofferson