Quotes

I've even let my hair be lightened a trifle. But never have I dyed it for stage or screen.

You can't eat recreation.

You must remember that Endora is basically a good witch. She really doesn't have a wicked bone in her magic finger. It's just that she hain't the patience to endure human follies and foibles. If you're human you're a slave. That's the way she sees it. She's a genius and she demands that quality in people as well as witches and warlocks.

Witches are made out of things like mushrooms and twigs. Everybody knows that.

I'm no prude. I like a witty innuendo, too.

I inherited the voice from my father, who was a minister. He taught me to speak clearly from babyhood, and probably it was my speech that brought me to Hollywood.

To me, witches are the most divine creatures. I always thought of them not as old crones with double chins and dunce hats, but as completely enchanting, blithe spirits.

I'm an idealist. I'll die an idealist in the theater. I'll stick to my convictions if I starve to death.

My father was a minister, and I suppose I take after him. He talked a lot professionally, too.

A wise man will take a woman's advice even if he doesn't understand it.

Purple is the hue worn by a baby witch or warlock. Pink and blue are for mortals.

Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.

It stands to reason that a person can't put forth his best effort if he's unhappy or if in the back of his mind there is gnawing worry about the butcher, baker, or reaction of his associates.

Women have much more instinct than men. There's no analyzing it.

The older I grow, the more I realize that the trivialities that used to frustrate one when you were younger... they don't mean anything.

When there is a pain-in-the-neck role for a girl to play, the directors start yelling 'Agnes.'

I always consider what I am doing at the moment the finest thing in my life. I find there's more happiness that way than in forever taking old triumphs out of trunks and dusting them off.

I studied ethics more than anything - people's feelings about humanity. Of course, I was much younger then. I had more trust in humanity then, but I think people were more trustful. They had standards of right and wrong. Now people say: 'What's right? What's wrong?' And I say: 'if you don't know what's right or wrong, then I'm sorry for you.'

I fear that word, fabulous.

I lived on oatmeal soup and apples. Nourishing enough.

I'm a Presbyterian minister's daughter.

I had a martyr complex as a child. I longed to attend the parties my classmates gave. But I was a minister's daughter. I couldn't stay out after 9:30 at night til I went to college. I never went to a dance till I was grown up and -away from home.

I've played all through the Middle East. The Arabs never say what they mean. They say what they think you want to hear.

Theater is a thankless art. When the curtain goes down, that is all. It doesn't really mean anything. Memories are very short, and fame is extremely fleeting.

I hope I cast a spell on other people in the kitchen. I like to experiment.