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Shirley Knight Quotes

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: July 5, 1936

Topics

Women Men Get Women Are Older

I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I Am Selfish Artists Attribute Am

No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is.

Family Job Me Think Real Seem

It's always cool when somebody from a football team or baseball team comes to your show.

Football Baseball Team Cool Always

I never feel comfortable! I'm always anxious. I'm always all over the board. That said, I like doing comedy because it's easy to tell when you're getting it right because people laugh, and you can hear it, and they're smiling, and you can see it.

People Laugh Comedy Doing Smiling

I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

Great Face Comedy You Play Know

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

Man Old Man Year Old First Role

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Winston Churchill

History Simple Action Thinking Want

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

Work Progress Now Horror Talk Like

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

Poetry Used Ireland Northern Ireland

On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.

January Great Day Mountains Shadow

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

Time American Dream Greed American

Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.

Age Art Me Mom Think Little

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