Lillian Gish Quotes

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• What you get is a living-what you give is a life.
• 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.…
• You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
• I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.
• It's a hard world for little things,
• I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.
• Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall that it helped much.
• 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…
• The stage was our school, our home, our life.
• Never get caught acting.
• As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.
• A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
• 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.
• Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.

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