Mary Astor Quotes

#1. There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor Type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

Mary Astor

#2. On the road, almost every day I'll do 100 squats, or sometimes I might do 50 squats and a bunch of leg lifts. I'll split them up right before I get in the shower and before I go to bed, or sometimes I'll do all 100 at once. Whatever I do, I try to get those in.

Kimberly Schlapman

#3. The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

Mary Astor

#4. I don't think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.

Mary Astor

#5. Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

Mary Astor

#6. Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

Joyce Meyer

#7. Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

Mary Astor

#8. Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

Mary Astor

#9. Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

Mary Astor

#10. A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

Mary Astor

#11. How do I explain that my greatest fear is precisely in relation to ... to being?" (5)

Clarice Lispector

#12. The boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

Mary Astor

#13. To move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

Mary Astor

#14. A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Mary Astor

#15. I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

J.G. Ballard

#16. The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ...

Mary Astor

#17. Uh huh, that's what your mouth said.

J. Riley Castine

#18. Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Mary Astor

#19. Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

George Eliot

#20. It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

Mary Astor

#21. Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Mary Astor