Top 33 Agnes Moorehead Quotes

I love trains. I always take them when I have time.

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.

Actually, I don’t care how I look as long as I’m acting.

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

I lived on oatmeal soup and apples. Nourishing enough.

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

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.

I’m a Presbyterian minister’s daughter.

Actors should remember they are public servants, really, and depend on the response of the people. And the public can be so fickle. That’s why now I’m glad to be working in my trade.

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

You have to farm the land. People have to eat. You can’t play all the time.

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

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

My mother taught me how to make Boston baked beans. People always buy pork and beans, but my mother will make them from scratch, because she learned as a bride and there’s an art to it.

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

I have been playing old women ever since I can remember.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I’ve played some horrid characters in the 70 pictures or so that I’ve made. But none of the roles degraded my sex. And I’ve never made a movie I’d be ashamed to have any of my friends or family see.

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.

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

I’m not interested in constantly feeding people tawdriness and confusion and chaos. The world is chaotic as it is. Why feed it to them constantly?

Acting is too often looked upon as a ‘gifted art.’ This may be, but having the gift is only the beginning. It must be honed, developed by training and experience.

I’m a woman of strong convictions.

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

I think there are people with the genes for being natural performers. Sometimes they go haywire and destroy themselves because of it and because they have no order in their lives.

Theater is constant, constant study and constant work. It’s a morning to midnight profession.

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

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

Too much exposure is bad.