Quotes

My mother's mother came from Dublin and was an extremely fine cook, but we didn't learn, we just admired what she did.

My mother taught me how to make Boston baked beans. People always buy pork and beans, but my mother will make them from scratch, because she learned as a bride and there's an art to it.

I don't want to live in a desert of dirt.

You have to farm the land. People have to eat. You can't play all the time.

I've played some horrid characters in the 70 pictures or so that I've made. But none of the roles degraded my sex. And I've never made a movie I'd be ashamed to have any of my friends or family see.

I've played so many mean-looking troublemakers I have to keep reminding myself I'm really not a bad person deep down.

I think there are people with the genes for being natural performers. Sometimes they go haywire and destroy themselves because of it and because they have no order in their lives.

You can have great freedom, but If you just have liberation without order, you're just bad, that's all. Those people are usually personality actors.

I'm not interested in constantly feeding people tawdriness and confusion and chaos. The world is chaotic as it is. Why feed it to them constantly?

I don't like touring. I've done so much of it, you know.

Theater is constant, constant study and constant work. It's a morning to midnight profession.

An actor has a great responsibility to an audience - to touch their hearts.

I have been playing old women ever since I can remember.

Acting is too often looked upon as a 'gifted art.' This may be, but having the gift is only the beginning. It must be honed, developed by training and experience.

You can't walk onto a set or stage not knowing your lines and how you are going to play them.

Too much exposure is bad.

I would rather have people say let's see more of her than she's too much.

You cannot duplicate Marion Lome.

I think backgrounds are important. We all should know what suits us best for what we are, or for the role we want to play, and furnish our homes accordingly.

I am a self-disciplined person, and the Bible is my security, guiding me in that discipline.

A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of the home comes in.

A child likes discipline. He likes to know somebody cares.

She's ethereal but also has to be believably real. It was difficult to find Endora 's character.

Witches are a cold breed who keep unto themselves.

I know people who are demoniacal.