“I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomime, but something wonderfully expressive.” — Lillian Gish
“We were from Ohio. Ladies had their name in print when they were born, when they got married and when they died – but never for anything else.” — Lillian Gish
Source: Mike Hughes (1988)
“If you play a bad person, 75 percent of your work is done before you begin. But to make a virginal, almost child interesting for two hours…Five minutes, yes. She’s nice to look at. After that, you had to work hard. I always called those parts ‘ga-ga babies.’ They were so hard to play.” — Lillian Gish
“The faces and the eyes are better than the words.” — Lillian Gish
Source: Arthur Unger (1981)
“Sometimes I wish I were really homely just so that my acting would have to count instead of my hair and eyes.” — Lillian Gish
Photo: Bain News Service
“I created heroines that were the essence of virginity, purity and goodness, with nobility of mind, heart, soul and body.” — Lillian Gish
Source: 1987
“Griffith was a man of warmth and good spirits. But there was an air about him that forbade intimacy. In all the years I worked with him, I never called him anything but Mr. Griffith, and he called me Miss Gish until about 1939, when we went on a first-name basis.” – Lillian Gish
Source: 1987
Dorothy Gish, Lillian and D.W. Griffith in 1922.
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Tea time on the set of Romola (1924) with sister Dorothy, Ronald Colman, and director Henry King.
