About Lillian Gish: Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress, director and writer whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 in silent film shorts to 1987. Gish was called the First Lady of American Cinema.
The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get yo...
The stage was our school, our home, our life.
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.
What you get is a living, what you give is a life.
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
