Mary Astor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Journey #Differences #Sentimental
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

#Actors #Type #Stage
Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.
-- Mary Astor

#Order #Appreciate #Security
Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.
-- Mary Astor

#Adversity #Problem #Grew
the reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ...
-- Mary Astor

#Sympathy #Pain #People
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
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
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
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
to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.
-- Mary Astor

#Moving #Justice #Wheels
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
-- Mary Astor

#Writing #Play #Waiting
Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.
-- Mary Astor

#Fuel #Emotion
The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
-- Mary Astor

#Men #Fishing #He Man
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
-- Mary Astor

#Asking Questions #Gone #Asking

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