Best 15 quotes of Lillian Gish on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

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

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.

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.

It's a hard world for little things.

I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.

Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart

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.

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

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

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

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.