Film Quotes by Lillian Gish
19 quotes
Year: 1915
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Elsie Stoneman:
[Ben is to be hanged. Elsie has an idea] We will ask mercy from the Great Heart.
--
Lillian Gish
(as Elsie Stoneman)
in
The Birth of a Nation
(1915)
Hetty Cutler Seibert:
John, the most terrible thing has happened to me. They've elected me President of the City Club.
--
Lillian Gish
(as Hetty Seibert)
in
Follow Me, Boys!
(1966)
Hetty Cutler Seibert:
No one is ever alone who has something good to remember.
--
Lillian Gish
(as Hetty Seibert)
in
Follow Me, Boys!
(1966)
Hetty Cutler Seibert:
Young man, you are a popinjay.
Ralph Hastings: Aunt Hetty...
Hetty Cutler Seibert: And you are an employer of popinjays
Ralph Hastings: Aunt Hetty...
Hetty Cutler Seibert: And you are an employer of popinjays
--
Lillian Gish
(as Hetty Seibert)
in
Follow Me, Boys!
(1966)
Year: 1946
Director:
King Vidor*Otto Brower*William Dieterle*Sidney Franklin*William Cameron Menzies*David O. Selznick*Josef von Sternberg
Director:
King Vidor*Otto Brower*William Dieterle*Sidney Franklin*William Cameron Menzies*David O. Selznick*Josef von Sternberg
Laura Belle McCanles:
[to Pearl] Neither your father nor I found happiness in this world, and I'm afraid neither will you.
--
Lillian Gish
(as Laura Belle McCanles)
in
Duel in the Sun
(1946)
Year: 1919
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Lucy Burrows:
[when her father father discovers her in the Chinaman's room] 'Taint nothin' wrong! 'Taint nothin' wrong! I fell down in the doorway and wasn't nothin' wrong!
--
Lillian Gish
in
Broken Blossoms
(1919)
Year: 1919
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Lucy Burrows:
Don't do it, Daddy! You'll hit me once too often, and then they'll hang yer.
--
Lillian Gish
in
Broken Blossoms
(1919)
Year: 1942
Director:
John Farrow
Director:
John Farrow
Mrs. Korstad:
[advising her daughter-in-law at her wedding reception] Do not permit yourself to get fat. Fat has ruined more marriages than actresses and pretty widows.
--
Lillian Gish
(as Mrs. Bergesen)
in
Commandos Strike at Dawn
(1942)
Year: 1955
Director:
Charles Laughton*Robert Mitchum*Terry Sanders
Director:
Charles Laughton*Robert Mitchum*Terry Sanders
Rachel Cooper:
[to Ruby, sobbing in her lap] Child... You were looking for love, Ruby, in the only foolish way you knew how.
--
Lillian Gish
(as Rachel Cooper)
in
The Night of the Hunter
(1955)
Year: 1955
Director:
Charles Laughton*Robert Mitchum*Terry Sanders
Director:
Charles Laughton*Robert Mitchum*Terry Sanders
Rachel Cooper:
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them.
--
Lillian Gish
(as Rachel Cooper)
in
The Night of the Hunter
(1955)