I. Frost's Selected Quotations

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Fasten your seatbelts kids, it's going to be a bumpy night.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies

If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Old age is no place for sissies.

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampiers they suck out life's blood.

Strong women only marry weak men

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Old age is no place for sissies.

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampiers they suck out life's blood.

Strong women only marry weak men

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Until you're known in my profession as a monster, you're not a star.

I will never be below the title.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

She's the original good time that was had by all.
Bette Davis, about a starlet

Free love is too expensive

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

I adore playing bitches... There`s a little bitch in every woman, and a little bit of bitch in every man.

I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair

No one has any rights about me except me

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a women gives her opinion she's a bitch.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

(on being told that her death was rumored) With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

You know what they'll write on my tombstone? She did it the hard way.