Sybil Thorndike Quotes

#1. I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some films that were given big releases. And I'm not really sure that happens in quite the same way, small films getting big releases. Maybe it still does, I don't know.

Whit Stillman

#2. But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulysses" on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac.

John Munro Woolsey

#3. Personally I wasn't one but surprised to walk into that theater and see Jo O'Connor's ghost. I knew as soon as I put my hand on the door handle that something funny was going on. I got all sort of lightheaded."
Probably the blood trying to find its way through the labyrinth of your brain.

Cameron Dokey

#4. He wanted to end it on his terms, that's all. . . .

J.K. Rowling

#5. [When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Sir Lewis Casson:] Divorce? Never. But murder often!

Sybil Thorndike

#6. It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.

Sybil Thorndike

#7. Here is a good philosophy of life: Enjoy the road with flowers; enjoy the road with stones!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar.

Sybil Thorndike

#9. We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.

Sybil Thorndike

#10. Is the music broke, Mommy?

Edward M. Wolfe

#11. May be it took realizing that you could die to keep you from wanting to do it.

Jodi Picoult

#12. I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.

Sybil Thorndike

#13. I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.

Sybil Thorndike