Famous quotes containing the word gish:
“Here I sit down to form characters. One I intend to be all goodness; All goodness he is. Another I intend to be all gravity; All gravity he is. Another Lady Gish; All Lady Gish she is. I am all the while absorbed in the character. It is not fair to sayI, identically I, am anywhere, while I keep within the character.”
—Samuel Richardson (16891761)
“No sacrifice was too great to get the film right, to get it accurate, true, and perfect. We werent important in our minds; only the picture was.”
—Lillian Gish (18961993)
“Again and again, I struggled though the storm. Once I faintedand it wasnt in the script. I was hauled to the studio on a sled, thawed out with hot tea, and then brought back to the blizzard, where the others were waiting. We filmed all day and all night, stopping only to eat standing near a bonfire. We never went inside.... The blizzard never slackened.”
—Lillian Gish (18961993)