The stage was our school, our home, our life.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the profound impact of performance and creativity on life.
Lillian Gish's quote conveys how deeply intertwined her identity and upbringing were with the world of theater. It emphasizes the idea that the stage provided not only a platform for artistic expression but also a sense of belonging and education, suggesting that the experiences gained through performance can shape oneβs life significantly.
In practice
In a graduation speech to emphasize the importance of creativity in education.
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 younger and the women get older.
I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.
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.
I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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