19 Quotes by Mary Astor

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?

Never admit to anything to anybody. Honesty is not the best policy.

I don’t think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

the reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ...