Mary Astor quotes:

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

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

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

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?

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

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.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

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.

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

the reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ...

Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.