Vaudevillian Comic Actors Quotes & Sayings

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper. — Luke Evans

Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let's face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman. — Kate Atkinson

We found a table. Nora said: "She's pretty."
"If you like them like that."
She grinned at me. "You got types?"
"Only you, darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws."
"And how about the red-head you wandered off with at Quinns' last night?"
"That's silly," I said. "She just wanted to show me some French etchings. — Dashiell Hammett

She got to me."
"It happens to the best of us."
"Yeah? Who gets to you?" He was so strong that sometimes she worried. Everyone needed to bend a little, even a panther responsible for the lives of his entire pack.
"That damn wolf. He sent you a present last week."
Sascha smiled at the thought of Hawke's flirting. The SnowDancer alpha did it only to jerk Lucas's chain. "I never saw any present. What was it?"
"How the hell should I know? I stomped on it and threw it into the deepest crevice I could find." He smirked. "Then I called him to ask how Sienna was doing."
She burst out laughing. "Wicked, wicked man. — Nalini Singh

And though there was something pathetic about it - taking comfort in her left-behind things like a puppy snuggled in an old coat ... — Donna Tartt

we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them. — Plutarch

Let's always be having an affair. Wherever we meet, however many times a year - let it always be an affair. — Kate Millett

Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act. — William Shockley

I don't want to sit until I'm 90 with people running around after me. I'm not one for sitting on the couch. — Paul O'Grady

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

When - notice that I do not say if, being granted almost as much stubbornness as you, by Gird's grace - when you find that you can swear your honor to Gird's fellowship, it will be my pleasure to give and receive your strokes. Is that satisfactory, or have you more conditions for a Marshal-General of Gird, and Captain-Temporal of the High Lord? Paks — Elizabeth Moon

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves. — Prince