Quotes from Ruth Gordon

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

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.

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.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

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

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.

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

Courage is like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?