Elizabeth Ashley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.
-- Elizabeth Ashley

#Acting #Actresses
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
-- Elizabeth Ashley

#Distance #Heart #Blood
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley

#Romantic #Play #Romance
drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.
-- Elizabeth Ashley

#Drama #People #Secret
the flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.
-- Elizabeth Ashley

#Success #Dope #Devil
Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.
-- Elizabeth Ashley

#Sex #Real #Drug
Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.
-- Elizabeth Ashley

#Jobs #Live Life #People
Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.
-- Elizabeth Ashley

#Art #Target #Aim
All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.
-- Elizabeth Ashley

#Beautiful #Pain #Lying
People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.
-- Elizabeth Ashley

#People #Pay #Way

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