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 Greer Garson Quotation"I remember her as gracious and beautiful. She had stature, but it didn't make her inaccessible. She wasn't somebody you'd poke and tell a dirty joke to, but she gave off a real feeling of warmth."--actress Eve Plumb, who costarred with Garson in the 1978 TV adaptation of Little Women. [In a 1990 interview, Garson deplored the violence of many modern films] "I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things -- and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict." "If you're going to be typed, there are worse moulds in which you can be cast." "All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen." [speaking in the 1970s] "I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea." Movie Title: Mrs. Miniver (1942) as Kay Miniver: Kay Miniver : I think it's lovely having flowers named after you. Movie Title: Blossoms In the Dust (1941) as Edna: Edna : Do I look like a hussy? Movie Title: When Ladies Meet (1941) as Claire Woodruff: Claire Woodruff : I've discovered it doesn't pay to be capable. Husbands don't approve. Movie Title: The Miniver Story (1950) as Kay Miniver: Kay Miniver : Death can be easy. It's living that's difficult. Movie Title: Pride and Prejudice (1940) as Elizabeth Bennet / Mr. Bennett / Elizabeth Bennett: Mr. Bennett : An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins. And I will never see you again if you do. Elizabeth Bennet : Oh Mr. Darcy, Ms. Bingley here is eager for her lesson. I hope you will enjoy it Ms. Bingley, and that you will learn to direct your darts with greater accuracy. Elizabeth Bennett : Oh, if you want to be really refined, you have to be dead. There's no one as dignified as a mummy Elizabeth Bennett : How clever of you, Miss Bingley, to know something of which you are ignorant. Movie Title: Random Harvest (1942) as Paula: Paula : Oh Smithy, You're ruining my makeup. Paula : Smithy, do I always have to take the initiative? You're supposed to kiss me. Movie Title: The Law and the Lady (1951) as Jane Hoskins: Jane Hoskins : I'm not interested in character, Baroness. I plan to become a lady, and for that, no character is necessary. Movie Title: Scandal at Scourie (1953) as Mrs. Victoria McChesney: Mrs. Victoria McChesney : Mr. McChesney always uses a long word whenever he can avoid a short one. Movie Title: Julia Misbehaves (1948) as Julia Packett: Fred Ghenoccio : Where's my mother? Julia Packett : She's in the bar drinking her breakfast! Movie Title: Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) as Katherine: Katherine : I'm sorry, I wasn't in any danger. Katherine : It must be tremendously interesting to be a schoolmaster, to watch boys grow up and help them along; to see their characters develop and what they become when they leave school and the world gets hold of them. I don't see how you could ever get old in a world that's always young. |
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