Katharine Cornell Quotes

#1. Depression gets you nowhere but tangled in an overgrown garden that can choke the life out of you.

Karen Marie Moning

#2. The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.

Katharine Cornell

#3. I like that best as I am so hairy.

Ben Affleck

#4. An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.

Katharine Cornell

#5. I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

Katharine Cornell

#6. When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.

Katharine Cornell

#7. Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.

Meher Baba

#8. A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting.

Katharine Cornell

#9. I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

Katharine Cornell

#10. Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

John Ortberg

#11. The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands.

Peter Jackson

#12. Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

Katharine Cornell

#13. In 'Hokey Pokey,' bikes are kind of more than bikes alone. They become mustangs; they become creatures that rip up the dust as they gallop across the Great Plains.

Jerry Spinelli

#14. I am up for anything, but my favorite show in the whole world is this English series, 'Skins.' It would be awesome to be able to go on that somehow.

Kevin McHale

#15. Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.

Katharine Cornell