68 Quotes by Ruth Gordon

At seventy-four I’m getting minor raves on my looks, but I’m caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I’d listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I’m eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

Do people get moral when they don’t get ahead?

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you’ll probably make it through the next one.

Don’t face the facts.

Live long enough and you’ll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn’t know cared.

Pan me, don’t give me the part, publish everybody’s book but this one and I will still make it!

I never got a job I didn’t create for myself.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added...

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you’ve got imagination, you don’t need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don’t face facts-what can stop you? If I don’t make it today, I’ll come in tomorrow.