Lillian Gish

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

— Lillian Gish

It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance…

— Lillian Gish

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

— Lillian Gish

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

— Lillian Gish

It's a hard world for little things,

— Lillian Gish

“I've never been in style, so I can never go out of style.”

— Lillian Gish

Never get caught acting.

— Lillian Gish

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

— Lillian Gish

Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

— Lillian Gish

Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart

— Lillian Gish

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

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he…

— Lillian Gish

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are…

— Lillian Gish

Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall that it…

— Lillian Gish

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

— Lillian Gish

Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

— Lillian Gish

I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not…

— Lillian Gish

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

— Lillian Gish

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

— Lillian Gish