Agnes Moorehead Quotes

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Agnes Moorehead

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 6, 1900

Purple is the hue worn by a baby witch or warlock. Pink and blue are for mortals.

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A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of the home comes in.

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You must remember that Endora is basically a good witch. She really doesn't have a wicked bone in her magic finger. It's just that she hain't the patience to endure human follies and foibles. If you're human you're a slave. That's the way she sees it. She's a genius and she demands that quality in people as well as witches and warlocks.

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I always consider what I am doing at the moment the finest thing in my life. I find there's more happiness that way than in forever taking old triumphs out of trunks and dusting them off.

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I've played so many mean-looking troublemakers I have to keep reminding myself I'm really not a bad person deep down.

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A wise man will take a woman's advice even if he doesn't understand it.

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I do not eat before I perform.

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I've even let my hair be lightened a trifle. But never have I dyed it for stage or screen.

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I'm no prude. I like a witty innuendo, too.

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I am a self-disciplined person, and the Bible is my security, guiding me in that discipline.

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I studied ethics more than anything - people's feelings about humanity. Of course, I was much younger then. I had more trust in humanity then, but I think people were more trustful. They had standards of right and wrong. Now people say: 'What's right? What's wrong?' And I say: 'if you don't know what's right or wrong, then I'm sorry for you.'

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When there is a pain-in-the-neck role for a girl to play, the directors start yelling 'Agnes.'

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I lived on oatmeal soup and apples. Nourishing enough.

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I'm a Presbyterian minister's daughter.

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I had a martyr complex as a child. I longed to attend the parties my classmates gave. But I was a minister's daughter. I couldn't stay out after 9:30 at night til I went to college. I never went to a dance till I was grown up and -away from home.

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I've played all through the Middle East. The Arabs never say what they mean. They say what they think you want to hear.

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The older I grow, the more I realize that the trivialities that used to frustrate one when you were younger... they don't mean anything.

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Theater is a thankless art. When the curtain goes down, that is all. It doesn't really mean anything. Memories are very short, and fame is extremely fleeting.

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I hope I cast a spell on other people in the kitchen. I like to experiment.

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My mother's mother came from Dublin and was an extremely fine cook, but we didn't learn, we just admired what she did.

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