Lillian Gish Quotes

#1. Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me.

D.W. Griffith

#2. Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

Fay Wray

#3. Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#4. He looked at me like Lillian Gish coming out of a swoon.
"Is this Bertie Wooster talking?" he said, pained.
"Yes, it jolly well is!"
"Bertie, old man," said Bingo, patting me gently here and there, "reflect! We were at school - "
"Oh, all right!

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. I'm no relation to Lillian or Dorothy Gish. Not even way back. But when I first became interested in acting, I wrote a letter to Lillian Gish. She wrote back, discouraging me from entering the business.

Annabeth Gish

#6. Science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn't happen - though often you only wish that it could.

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. But you can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.

Jennifer Echols

#8. What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

Lillian Gish

#9. The stage was our school, our home, our life.

Lillian Gish

#10. One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

Mark Cuban

#11. It's just a matter of time before we go into Iraq and get Saddam Hussein. I think just before Bush falls below 50 percent, that's when we'll be going.

Jay Leno

#12. When we change the way we think, we change our lives. What most people do not understand is how powerful our thinking is and how involved it is in our health.

Bob Proctor

#13. Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.

Nawal El Saadawi

#14. I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.

Lillian Gish

#15. Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessary. ... It was as if a part of us that was air and breeze had been denied entry.

Amit Chaudhuri

#16. Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

Lillian Gish

#17. A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Lillian Gish

#18. You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

Lillian Gish

#19. Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

Lillian Gish

#20. I like people to come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do.

Lillian Gish

#21. Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.

Lillian Gish

#22. I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.

Lillian Gish

#23. It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety
not even joy.

Lillian Gish

#24. The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

Lillian Gish

#25. As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.

Lillian Gish

#26. Never get caught acting.

Lillian Gish

#27. A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

#28. I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

Lillian Gish

#29. As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.

Tatiana Maslany

#30. You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Lillian Gish