Lillian Gish Quotes

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The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

Lillian Gish
Marriage is a business. A woman cannot combine a career and marriage.... I should not wish to unite the two.

Lillian Gish
I believe that marriage is a career in itself. I have preferred a stage career to a marriage career.

Lillian Gish
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Lillian Gish
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father, and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

Lillian Gish
I don't feel I'm old. I just feel I'm me. And I've always been a happy person. I love the human race. I love my work. I love the world—I've been around it four times, you know. And I'm a believing person. I believe in God, even though I can't see him. You can't see the air in this room, right? But take it away and you're dead. And I believe there's something for us after we die. The world isn't wasteful. It keeps going on and I think we do too.

Lillian Gish
It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety--not even joy.

Lillian Gish