Quotes from Agnes Moorehead

I love trains. I always take them when I have time.

My father told me fairy stories and he read to us. And my grandmother was Irish. She told us about 'the little people.' When I went into the forest I used to look for them.

When there is a pain-in-the-neck role for a girl to play, the directors start yelling 'Agnes.'

You know, many actors when they get older are afraid to be around young people, but I welcome their views.

I studied ethics more than anything - people's feelings about humanity. Of course, I was much younger then. I had more trust in humanity then, but I think people were more trustful. They had standards of right and wrong. Now people say: 'What's right? What's wrong?' And I say: 'if you don't know what's right or wrong, then I'm sorry for you.'

The older I grow, the more I realize that the trivialities that used to frustrate one when you were younger... they don't mean anything.

I've even let my hair be lightened a trifle. But never have I dyed it for stage or screen.

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've played so many mean-looking troublemakers I have to keep reminding myself I'm really not a bad person deep down.

You have to farm the land. People have to eat. You can't play all the time.

I lived on oatmeal soup and apples. Nourishing enough.

You sort of sense the mood of the audience and it means a lot. And when you look back on those times, it means so much because, after all, that's all you have.

Bewitched' weaves a spell of fantasy that televiewers of any age can lose themselves in.

I hope I cast a spell on other people in the kitchen. I like to experiment.

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.

Something is great when it starts low and rises to the heights. Or starts high and sinks low.

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?

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.

Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.

Actually, I don't care how I look as long as I'm acting.

You cannot duplicate Marion Lome.