Actress Quotes

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.

I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.