Actress Quotes
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Helen Hayes
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Linda Thorson
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
When you`re dead, you`re dead. That`s it.
Marlene Dietrich
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen
Getting divorced just because you don`t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
It`s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Linda Thorson
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr
I`d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he`d be dead within a year.
Bette Davis
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That`s what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
Life loves the liver of it.
Maya Angelou
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
Fame will go by and, so long, I`ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I`ve always known it was fickle. So at least it`s something I experience, but that`s not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe
There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Helen Hayes
If you don`t like something, change it. If you can`t change it, change your attitude. Don`t complain.
Maya Angelou
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It`s a whole different way of thinking.
Elayne Boosler
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions
Elayne Boosler
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron