
Top 15 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
#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
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