A biography for Agnes Mooreheadhasn’t been written yet.
“Witches are a cold breed who keep unto themselves.”
“A wise man will take a woman's advice even if he doesn't understand it.”
“I think all actors have a strange quirk about them. They're different than the usual run of people. They have a way of dramatizing things.”
“I don't want to live in a desert of dirt.”
“I don't like touring. I've done so much of it, you know.”
“Women have much more instinct than men. There's no analyzing it.”
“I think backgrounds are important. We all should know what suits us best for what we are, or for the role we want to play, and furnish our homes accordingly.”
“Most actresses want to look their best on the screen. It's only natural. But many of my roles have called for dreary-looking characters.”
“I always consider what I am doing at the moment the finest thing in my life. I find there's more happiness that way than in forever taking old triumphs out of trunks and dusting them off.”
“I know people who are demoniacal.”
“Looks and age determine whether you play leading ladies or characters. And I'm very happy playing character parts.”
“She's ethereal but also has to be believably real. It was difficult to find Endora 's character.”
“Something is great when it starts low and rises to the heights. Or starts high and sinks low.”
“You know, many actors when they get older are afraid to be around young people, but I welcome their views.”
“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?”
“Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.”
“I have been playing old women ever since I can remember.”
“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.”
“You have to farm the land. People have to eat. You can't play all the time.”
“You can't eat recreation.”