Lillian Gish

I believe there's something for us after we die. The world isn't wasteful.

Lillian Diana Gish (1893-10-14 – 1993-02-27) was an Oscar-nominated American actress.

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• 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.
  • As quoted in An Uncommon Scold (1989) by Abby Adams

• I'm a believing person. I believe in God even though I can't see him. You can't see the air in this room, right? But take it away and you're dead. And I believe there's something for us after we die. The world isn't wasteful.
  • As quoted in Lillian Gish : Her Legend, Her Life (2002) by Charles Affron, p. 353

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• I've always been a happy person. I love the human race. I love my work. I love the world.

• In my time, when a man used improper language in front of a lady, another man took him outside and knocked him down.

• Movies nowadays are all alike, as if they were made on an assembly line. Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

• The love scenes I did years ago were sensitive and romantic, but in today's (filmed) lovemaking, couples are trying to swallow each other's tonsils.

• You only get one body to live in so you better take care of it.