Quotes from Ruth Gordon

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

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

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

Never give up and never face the facts.

To be somebody, you must last.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming. Think it over.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

Don't economize, earn more money.

If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

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.

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

To be somebody you must last.