Ruth Gordon Quotes

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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

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Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

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I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!

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Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

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To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never — I repeat never — under any condition face the facts.

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If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts — what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

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At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

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I never 'faced facts' in life, so I survived. If I'd faced facts, I would have realized that I was a plain little girl with bow legs from Quincy, Massachusetts, and never gone on the stage. You must never face facts.

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By the time you know how to act, you're too old to do it.

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Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

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The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

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I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

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Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

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So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

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The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

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Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

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He's seen so many plays he uses dialogue instead of conversation.

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Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.

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Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.

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Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

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