"You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older."

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Source : Quoted in Abby Adams, An Uncommon Scold (1989)

Lillian Gish

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“When I was nine I played the Demon King in Cinderella and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.”
“I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.”
“The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.”
“I'm cancer-free right now. That's it.”
“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.”
“I'm quite introverted but I'm not shy.”
“When I was two I was always like "I wanna be a famous singer when I grow up." When you listen to most kids they went in and did all these competitions. I was never like that, my mom never pushed me like that. I pretty much just sang when I wanted to.”
“You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street. All the managers, pitching coaches (are) very sensitive. Look, you can always pick at something, but there's a broader picture, a grander picture.”

Source : "Classic move: Yankees apologize" by The Associated Press, archive.boston.com. March 5, 2006.

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