Agnes Moorehead Quotes

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Agnes Moorehead

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 6, 1900

I would rather have people say let's see more of her than she's too much.

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You cannot duplicate Marion Lome.

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I think backgrounds are important. We all should know what suits us best for what we are, or for the role we want to play, and furnish our homes accordingly.

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Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.

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A child likes discipline. He likes to know somebody cares.

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She's ethereal but also has to be believably real. It was difficult to find Endora 's character.

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Witches are a cold breed who keep unto themselves.

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Witches are made out of things like mushrooms and twigs. Everybody knows that.

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I know people who are demoniacal.

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From what I can see people look at television to forget the horrors outside.

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My father told me fairy stories and he read to us. And my grandmother was Irish. She told us about 'the little people.' When I went into the forest I used to look for them.

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I think all actors have a strange quirk about them. They're different than the usual run of people. They have a way of dramatizing things.

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Drama is not great when it's a roll off the curb into the gutter.

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Something is great when it starts low and rises to the heights. Or starts high and sinks low.

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Playing a convincing witch takes a bit of research. I've looked up the old Salem business and reread a lot of fairy tales and the 'Oz' books. The main thing, I think, is to develop one strange, odd little thing to do that the audience does not expect.

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Good theater is not realistic, and should not be. Its purpose, rather, is to highlight, never to spell out a situation.

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Acting is suggesting, the art lies in leaving room for the audience to identify.

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Radio leaves much to the audience's imagination, allows the listeners to fill in so much, provided that the voices convey enough.

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Bewitched' weaves a spell of fantasy that televiewers of any age can lose themselves in.

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You sort of sense the mood of the audience and it means a lot. And when you look back on those times, it means so much because, after all, that's all you have.

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