Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Lillian Gish

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Lillian Gish.

Last updated on November 15, 2024.

Lillian Diana Gish was an American actress, director and screenwriter. Her film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called "The First Lady of American Cinema", and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th greatest female movie star of classic Hollywood cinema.

American - Actress | October 14, 1893 - February 27, 1993

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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.

Lillian Gish

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Lillian Gish

What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

Lillian Gish

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.

Lillian Gish

Never get caught acting.

Lillian Gish

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Lillian Gish

The stage was our school, our home, our life.

Lillian Gish

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.

Lillian Gish

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

Lillian Gish

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.

Lillian Gish

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.

Lillian Gish

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.

Lillian Gish

It's a hard world for little things.

Lillian Gish

Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

Lillian Gish

What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

Lillian Gish

As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.

Lillian Gish

I like people to come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do.