Greer Garson Quotes

• Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

  Greer Garson

  Money, Mistake, Starting Over

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

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• When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

  Greer Garson

  Waiting, Ships

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

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• I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

  Greer Garson

  Retirement, Wish, Age

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

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• I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things -- and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.

  Greer Garson

  Thinking, Mirrors, Brave

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• All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen.

  Greer Garson

  Opportunity, Trying, Essentials

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

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• I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea.

  Greer Garson

  Character, Feel Better, Thinking

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

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• If you're going to be typed, there are worse molds in which you can be cast.

  Greer Garson

  Mold, Casts, Ifs

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