Mary Astor Quotes & Sayings

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches. — Mary Astor

I admire nudity and I like sex, and so did a lot of people in the Thirties. But, to me, overexposure blunts the fun ... 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. Nudity is fine in the privacy of my own bedroom with the appropriate partner. Or for a model in life class at art school. Or as portrayed in stone and paint. But I don't like it used as a joke or to titillate. Or be so bloody frank about. — Mary Astor

Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it. — Mary Astor

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country. — Mary Astor

To move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business. — Mary Astor

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. — Mary Astor

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. — Mary Astor

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. — Mary Astor

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

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

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

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ... — Mary Astor

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel. — Mary Astor

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. — 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? — Mary Astor

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