Lillian Gish quotes:
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A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
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You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
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Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall that it helped much.
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What you get is a living, what you give is a life.
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I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.
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The stage was our school, our home, our life.
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Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.
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Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.
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As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.
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It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety--not even joy.
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Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart
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Never get caught acting.
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Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.
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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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The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.
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I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.
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I like people to come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do.
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It's a hard world for little things,
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I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.
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What you get is a living-what you give is a life.