Billie Burke
Billie Burke
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burkewas an American actress, famous on Broadway and in early silent film, best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the movie musical The Wizard of Oz. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1938 for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live and is also remembered for her appearances in the Topper series. Billie Burke was the wife of Broadway producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth7 August 1884
CountryUnited States of America
If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.
I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.
I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.
There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.
It seems to me that the most fundamental mistake most parents make with children is to expect them to be grateful. Children are never grateful. ... The 'sacrifices' you made were not for them, they were for you.
Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese ...
But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
Twins are so practical. It's always nice to have a spare.
Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
This is an era of woman's work in many spheres of activity -- of independent thought and individual achievement in the arts and sciences and learned professions, as well as the humbler, but not more self-sacrificing fields of usefulness. But every woman pursues the eternal quest for love, for sympathy, for understanding, for happiness, and in her heart is the great, holy yearning for motherhood.
Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.