Mary Astor quotes
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“It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.”
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“There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?”
-- Mary AstorSource : A Life on Film ch. 14 (1967)
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“Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.”
-- Mary AstorSource : Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”
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“Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.”
-- Mary AstorSource : Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”
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“the reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ...”
-- Mary AstorSource : Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”
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“Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.”
-- Mary AstorSource : Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”
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“Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.”
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“A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.”
-- Mary AstorSource : Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”
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“the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.”
-- Mary AstorSource : Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”
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“to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.”
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“A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.”
-- Mary AstorSource : Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”
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“Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.”
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“The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.”
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“Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.”
-- Mary AstorSource : Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”
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