Mary Astor Quotes

• 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 Astor

  Funny, Actresses, Cinema

  A Life on Film ch. 14 (1967)

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• It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

  Mary Astor

  Journey, Differences, Sentimental

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

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• Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

  Mary Astor

  Cute, Fuel, Emotion

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• The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

  Mary Astor

  Sympathy, Pain, People

  Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”

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• A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

  Mary Astor

  Writing, Play, Waiting

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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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 Astor

  Beautiful, Sex, Cutting

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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• Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

  Mary Astor

  Asking Questions, Gone, Asking

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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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 Astor

  Country, Children, Memories

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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• Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

  Mary Astor

  Order, Appreciate, Threatened

  Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”

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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 Astor

  Laughter, Boys, Laughing

  Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”

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• The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

  Mary Astor

  Men, Fishing, He Man

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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.

  Mary Astor

  Movie, Horse, Tired

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• Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

  Mary Astor

  Adversity, Problem, Grew

  Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”

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• to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

  Mary Astor

  Moving, Justice, Wheels

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