Hush Quotes

(when asked to take over Joan Crawford`s role in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)) "No, thank you. I can just about stand looking at Joan Crawford`s face at six o`clock in the morning, but not Bette Davis."

I don`t think anyone should be educated sexually. There`s far too many people on the planet. If we could hush it up for a few years, that would help.

(pn why she wrote the song "I`m OK", which is her take on her father Fausto Aguilera`s abusive behavior before her parents separated) It is such a hush-hush topic because it happens in the home. I definitely wrote that song not to badmouth him at all, but one, for a healing process for myself, and two, to give people hope or a voice to relate to. To know that you can get through it and that it will be OK.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

(on Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)): It was full of traps; it was a delicate tightrope assignment. I found that very interesting. Robert Aldrich gave it a very special style, a kind of dark, glittering style which fascinated me.

You could say he has a `License to Grill`. - About his son who owns the London restaurant, `Hush`

We used to hang out at Joss`s place Sunday nights and do Shakespeare readings. I got to do my Richard III recently. Then we`d have a few tequilas, sit around the piano and sing. I talked to Joss years ago about doing a Buffy musical, and then finally in the summer he sat down and wrote Once More, With Feeling," episode seven of season six. He`s taken the inaccessible area of musicals - why does everybody keep singing? - and turned it to his advantage. It`s the answer to "Hush," season four`s spellbinding silent episode where nobody could talk. We all sing about the things we`re thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can`t talk about. It works a real treat." (January 9, 2002)

`Be comfortable with who you are`, reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they`d never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.