Ruth Gordon Quotes
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At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.
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The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
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Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.
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So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
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Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
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In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.
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Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.
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When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.
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I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!
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I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.
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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
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Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?
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The good that men do lives after them.
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Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.
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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
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Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
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Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.
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I never got a job I didn't create for myself.
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Don't face the facts.
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Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.
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If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
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To be somebody, you must last.