"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?"

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Source : A Life on Film ch. 14 (1967)

Mary Astor

#Actors Quotes #Type Quotes #Stage Quotes

“Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.”
“If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.”
“O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.”
“Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.”
“I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.”

Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 44, 1985.
“To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.”

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