Elizabeth Ashley Quotes

• The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Acting, Actresses

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• All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Beautiful, Pain, Lying

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• People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  People, Pay, Way

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• drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Drama, People, Secret

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Love, Women, Distance

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Love, Anniversary, Romantic

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• Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Art, Target, Aim

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Jobs, Live Life, People

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• the flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Success, Dope, Devil

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Sex, Real, Drug

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