Agnes Moorehead
You must remember that Endora is basically a good witch. She really doesn't have a wicked bone in her magic finger. It's just that she hain't the patience to endure human follies and foibles. If you're human you're a slave. That's the way she sees it. She's a genius and she demands that quality in people as well as witches and warlocks.Collection: Patience
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.'Collection: Trust
A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of the home comes in.Collection: Government
Purple is the hue worn by a baby witch or warlock. Pink and blue are for mortals.
Witches are made out of things like mushrooms and twigs. Everybody knows that.
When there is a pain-in-the-neck role for a girl to play, the directors start yelling 'Agnes.'
A wise man will take a woman's advice even if he doesn't understand it.
I've even let my hair be lightened a trifle. But never have I dyed it for stage or screen.
I had a martyr complex as a child. I longed to attend the parties my classmates gave. But I was a minister's daughter. I couldn't stay out after 9:30 at night til I went to college. I never went to a dance till I was grown up and -away from home.
You can't eat recreation.
You cannot duplicate Marion Lome.
I lived on oatmeal soup and apples. Nourishing enough.
I'm a Presbyterian minister's daughter.
I've played all through the Middle East. The Arabs never say what they mean. They say what they think you want to hear.
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.
Theater is a thankless art. When the curtain goes down, that is all. It doesn't really mean anything. Memories are very short, and fame is extremely fleeting.
I hope I cast a spell on other people in the kitchen. I like to experiment.
My mother's mother came from Dublin and was an extremely fine cook, but we didn't learn, we just admired what she did.
My mother taught me how to make Boston baked beans. People always buy pork and beans, but my mother will make them from scratch, because she learned as a bride and there's an art to it.
I don't want to live in a desert of dirt.
You have to farm the land. People have to eat. You can't play all the time.
I've played some horrid characters in the 70 pictures or so that I've made. But none of the roles degraded my sex. And I've never made a movie I'd be ashamed to have any of my friends or family see.
I've played so many mean-looking troublemakers I have to keep reminding myself I'm really not a bad person deep down.
I'm no prude. I like a witty innuendo, too.
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 can have great freedom, but If you just have liberation without order, you're just bad, that's all. Those people are usually personality actors.
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 don't like touring. I've done so much of it, you know.
Theater is constant, constant study and constant work. It's a morning to midnight profession.
To me, witches are the most divine creatures. I always thought of them not as old crones with double chins and dunce hats, but as completely enchanting, blithe spirits.
An actor has a great responsibility to an audience - to touch their hearts.
Women have much more instinct than men. There's no analyzing it.
I'm an idealist. I'll die an idealist in the theater. I'll stick to my convictions if I starve to death.
I have been playing old women ever since I can remember.
I inherited the voice from my father, who was a minister. He taught me to speak clearly from babyhood, and probably it was my speech that brought me to Hollywood.
I fear that word, fabulous.
Acting is too often looked upon as a 'gifted art.' This may be, but having the gift is only the beginning. It must be honed, developed by training and experience.
You can't walk onto a set or stage not knowing your lines and how you are going to play them.
Too much exposure is bad.
I would rather have people say let's see more of her than she's too much.
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.
I am a self-disciplined person, and the Bible is my security, guiding me in that discipline.
Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.
A child likes discipline. He likes to know somebody cares.
She's ethereal but also has to be believably real. It was difficult to find Endora 's character.
Witches are a cold breed who keep unto themselves.
I know people who are demoniacal.
From what I can see people look at television to forget the horrors outside.
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.
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.