Margaret Sullavan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.”
-- Margaret Sullavan

Source : "Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan". Book by Lawrence J. Quirk (p. 77), 1986.

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“It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.”
-- Margaret Sullavan

Source : "Haywire". Book by Brooke Hayward. Jonathan Cape Ltd., p. 215., 1977.

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“Acting in the movies is just like ditch-digging”
-- Margaret Sullavan

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“Psychologically, I’m very confused… But personally, I don’t feel bad at all.”
-- Margaret Sullavan

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“I still hate making pictures! And I don't like Hollywood any better. I detest the limelight and love simplicity, and in Hollywood the only thing that matters is the hullabaloo of fame. If Hollywood will let me alone to find my way without forcing me and rushing me into things, I probably will change my feelings about it. But at present Hollywood seems utterly horrible and interfering and consuming. Which is why I want to leave it as soon as I am able.”
-- Margaret Sullavan

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“Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it,”
-- Margaret Sullavan

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“Psychologically, I’m very confused… But personally, I don’t feel bad at all.”
-- Margaret Sullavan

Source : "Fictional Character: Klara Novak". "The Shop Around the Corner", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”

“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”

“I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.”

“I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.”

“One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.”

“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”

“I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.”