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Loretta Young
American
Actress
About the author
I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Public
Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Want
#Eye
#Sheep
#Makeup
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Habit
#Enthusiasm
It's so important to look relaxed.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Self
#Silence
In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Nothing
#Dreams
#Girls
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Education
#Profession
If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Want
#Sun
If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Road
#Enthusiasm
#Travel
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Want
#Pretty
#Struggle
I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Death
#Pain
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Money
#Importance
Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Home
#Glamour
#Charity
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Television
#Performance
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Love
Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Old
#Poor
Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Career
#Determination
Success can't be forced.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Success
The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Time
#Woman
#Care
There are no ugly ducklings.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Ugly
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Being
#Achievement
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Misfortune
What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Eyes
#Voice
#Thoughts
I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#God
#Faith
#Courage
#Gifts
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Character
#Fashion
#Courage
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Dress
#Manners
As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Will
#Job
A charming woman is a busy woman.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Woman
A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Woman
A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Idea
#Houses
#Faces
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Talk
#Stars
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Life
#Emotions
#Business
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Tears
#Gifts
Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Value
I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Time
#Thought
Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Habit
#Credit
#Giving
Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Glamour
Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Emotion
#Gratitude
I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Today
#Living
#Tomorrow
#Yesterday
I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
I was a very wanting child.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Life
#Quotations
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Voice
I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Universe
#Force
#Prayer
I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Dumb
#Blind
I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Man
#Dream
I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Want
#Thinking
#Despair
I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Self
I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Conscience
I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Fight
#Business
I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Life
#Family
#Home
#Meeting
#Dating
I don't yearn to be a child again.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Want
#Right
#Hurt
I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
Loretta Young,
American
Actress
#Mistakes
#Disappointments