Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Astor

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Mary Astor.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Mary Astor was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941).

American - Actress | May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987

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

Mary Astor

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Mary Astor

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

Mary Astor

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

Mary Astor

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

Mary Astor

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Mary Astor

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.

Mary Astor

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

Mary Astor

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

Mary Astor

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?

Mary Astor

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.

Mary Astor

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

Mary Astor

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

Mary Astor

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

Mary Astor