Greer Garson

Greer: All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks, I do know this, they always happen.

Greer (speaking in 1972): I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea.

Greer (talking in the 90's about Hollywood increase in "violent" films): think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life, toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things, and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.