Mary Astor

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

— Mary Astor

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor…

— Mary Astor

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

— Mary Astor

“I admire nudity and I like sex, and so did a lot of people in the Thirties. But, to me, overexposure blunts…

— Mary Astor

Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was…

— Mary Astor

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

— Mary Astor

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

— Mary Astor

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

— Mary Astor

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

— Mary Astor

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

— Mary Astor

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

— Mary Astor

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

— Mary Astor

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

— Mary Astor

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

— Mary Astor

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

— Mary Astor

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

— Mary Astor