Vivian Vance famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I die, there will be people who send flowers to Ethel Mertz.
-- Vivian Vance

#Flower #People
I loathed William Frawley and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wouldnâ€™t be a scene where we had to be in bed together.
-- Vivian Vance

#Feelings #Together #Scripts
At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told her that if I had her looks and talent, I'd keep me and fire the agent!
-- Vivian Vance

#Eye #Fire #Agents
I don't want to be a star - most of the ones I know are too unhappy.
-- Vivian Vance

#Stars #Unhappy #Want

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.
The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Vivian Vance famous quotes

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