Lilli Palmer Quotes

• I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.

  Lilli Palmer

  Views, Imagination, Actors

  Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”

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• Departures and arrivals tend to emphasize people's personalities.

  Lilli Palmer

  People, Personality, Departure

  Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”

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• Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.

  Lilli Palmer

  Memories, Smell, Childhood

  Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”

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• Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

  Lilli Palmer

  Requirements, Fidelity, Palms

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• I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

  Lilli Palmer

  Sweat, Easy, Mistrust

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• Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.

  Lilli Palmer

  Art, Nice, Creativity

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