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 Mary Astor Quotation"A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits." "I was never totally involved in movies. I was just making my father's dream come true." "It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instesd of the sameness." [On her early Hollywood roles] "I was as two-dimensional as the screen itself: cool, indifferent, looking lovely in close ups. Period. Period. Period. When was I ever going to learn to act? You can't learn if you can't experiment and find out what works and doesn't work. But the hours are long, the schedule rigid, so I did what I was told and saved time and money for the front office. And got a lot of jobs that way." "Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone." "A person without memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country." [On George S. Kaufman] "He was the kind of man I'd go over a cliff for." "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?" Movie Title: Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) as Jewel Mayhew: Jewel Mayhew : Well, right here on the public street, in the light of day, let me tell you, Miriam Deering, that murder starts in the heart, and its first weapon is a vicious tongue. Movie Title: Brigham Young - Frontiersman (1940) as Mary Ann Young: Mary Ann Young : You're dead set against California, aren't you? Brigham Young : You know human nature. Take a crowd of people to a place of milk and honey and in six months time, they won't be worth shooting. Movie Title: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) as Mrs. Anna Smith: Mrs. Anna Smith : Sure, what of your own family, at a time like this you think about the chickens. 'Tootie' Smith : Here comes the invalid. I have to have two kinds of ice cream. I'm recuperating. Mrs. Anna Smith : If I ever catch you fibbing again like you did about John Truett, I'll give you something to recuperate about. Movie Title: The Maltese Falcon (1941) as Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Brigid O'Shaughnessy : I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know. Sam Spade : You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere. Sam Spade : Haven't you tried to buy my loyalty with money and nothing else? Brigid O'Shaughnessy : What else is there I can buy you with? Brigid O'Shaughnessy : He has a wife and three children in England. Sam Spade : They usually do, though not always in England. Brigid O'Shaughnessy : Mr. Archer was so alive yesterday, so solid and hearty... Sam Spade : Stop it. He knew what he was doing. Those are the chances we take. Brigid O'Shaughnessy : Was he married? Sam Spade : Yeah, with ten thousand insurance, no children, and a wife that didn't like him. Brigid O'Shaughnessy : Help me. Sam Spade : You won't need much of anybody's help. You're good. Chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get in your voice when you say things like 'Be generous, Mr. Spade.' Brigid O'Shaughnessy : I deserve that. But the lie was in the way I said it, not at all in what I said. It's my own fault if you can't believe me now. Sam Spade : Ah, now you are dangerous. Brigid O'Shaughnessy : I do know he always went heavily armed, and that he never went to sleep without covering the floor around his bed with crumpled newspapers, so that nobody could come silently into his room. Sam Spade : You picked a nice sort of a playmate. Brigid O'Shaughnessy : Only that sort could have helped me, if he'd been loyal. Sam Spade : All we've got is that maybe you love me and maybe I love you. Brigid O'Shaughnessy : You know whether you love me or not. Sam Spade : Maybe I do. I'll have some rotten nights after I've sent you over, but that'll pass. Movie Title: The Great Lie (1941) as Sandra Kovac: Sandra Kovac : "If I didn't think you meant so well, I'd feel like slapping your face" Movie Title: The Palm Beach Story (1942) as Princess / The Princess Centimillia: Princess : Nothing is permanent in this world except Roosevelt, dear. John D. Hackensacker III : You don't marry someone you just met the day before; at least I don't. The Princess Centimillia : But that's the only way, dear. If you get to know too much about them you'd never marry them. Movie Title: Red Dust (1932) as Barbara Willis: Barbara Willis : That's a...a very polished little speech for a...barbarian. |
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