Popularity: 2
Vote:   | A charming woman is a busy woman. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | A friend of mine recently developed a habit of making up her mouth larger. For a while the little extra over-line was becoming. But as weeks went by, she had unconsciously increased the size of her lips until her only rival could be a Ubangi. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | A woman who's that sold on personal comfort is bound to be sloppy, too, in her personal relationships. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | 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! |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | As soon as I get home from a day of work, I bathe, brush my hair, put on fresh makeup, and slip into a hostess gown. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | At the beginning of World War II, a fine young actor placed his whole career-work, money, popularity-on the altar of what he believed... Our country was at war. Very few cared what he said. He was accused, judged, vilified. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | Every best-dressed woman keeps some of her gowns for years. She's learned that fashion-wisdom is compounded of knowledge, taste, confidence and poise. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Hands are always conspicuous, and if used carelessly, they'll always detract, never be a plus to the enhancement of personality. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer - all prayers - with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I believe that a life without religion is, truly, an impoverished existence. I believe in the efficacy of prayer and have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I believe that if each and every person really worked to possess self-respect and genuine regard for his fellowman, there could be no crime. There could be no wars. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I believe you have to nurture your conscience. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I believed I could play roles of substance and meaning. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | 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? |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I did not work for nine months. I thought I'd go stark, raving mad with all that idleness-time. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | 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? |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I don't know many ambition-ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I don't yearn to be a child again. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I feel almost sad whenever I see a woman stare blankly into space. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I felt I was in a sparkling, tinsel-lined, successful box-office career-rut. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I have a full, rich respect for fashion. I love its whimsy, its humor, its charm and its rewards. I love its vagaries and its demands. I love what it does for women. But I know, with all my heart, that no woman should follow it blindly. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | I know elderly people who have so lived in their long lives. Today, they find great pleasure in each and every day. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I learned a lot of things from Colleen Moore. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I was a very wanting child. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I was always independent. I never wanted to follow the crowd, but I think that following the crow is more typical of teenage behavior today than in my day. And I do deplore it. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I was not quite 4 when Mamma moved all of us and all our worldly goods to Hollywood. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | I was very lucky. I had a marvelous family behind me. A wise mother. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I well remember how sure I was of myself when I was in my teens. I'm not critical of teens today. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I'll bet even Helen of Troy had to have at least a little sunshine in her disposition. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I'm not sure the public knows what it wants. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I'ts heartbreaking to see many people who merely long for success. They're on a sort of treadmill, plodding along, getting exactly nowhere. They haven't mastered their dreams. They've let their dreams master them, and what makes it so sad is that they don't know why others get where they want to go! |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | I've always been scared to death of pain-afraid, even, to think of it. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | If you believe in prayer, if you storm heaven with your prayers, almost miraculous things can happen! |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | If you use disappointments as sort of mid-semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger-and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Ignorance is no excuse! That's the Law! |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium. |
Popularity: 9
Vote: | In a way, it's mathematically sure that if your poise is showing, if you are unhurried and unharried, you're on your budget. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | In silence-and in self-defense-I figured things out in my own little way. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | It's so important to look relaxed. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Learning my craft as an actress is an ever-present challenge, a never-failing source of development. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | Listening is more than just a very rewarding habit. After awhile you discover what a world of information you can gain from hearing what others say, and If you're interested, you're interesting. All the most popular people are good listeners. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Maybe it was my acting like a big star all over the place at home that got us all enrolled at the convent, where for stellar, individualistic tactics, there was no possibility of reward. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | My entrance on The Loretta Young Show meant much more to me than any actress's entrance I'd ever made. Every time I opened that door I was a hostess greeting very welcome guests. It is a greeting which is very meaningful to me. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | My presentation to the Queen of England and having her speak to me so personally was a great and unforgettable honor. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | My work has brought me into contact with the world's finest designers. I had a lot to learn. I have learned a lot. I found out you can learn a lot about yourself as a person, too-while you're learning how to use fashion in your life. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Neither sheep nor mavericks will ever get to the head of the class. Ignorance is forgivable, unorthodoxy is tolerated. Bad taste and expulsion are synonymous. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | No woman can really tell-sometimes she doesn't even realize-all the things she learns when the man of her life replaces the Prince of her dreams. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | One of the loveliest women I know has the most unrelieved assemblage of homely features I've ever seen. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Personal feelings should not enter into business-getting the job done is all that interests the boss. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Shopping is a public appearance. All women should be sure they aren't dressed for the back yard or the kitchen, the beach or a dinner dance, when they go to shop or to market. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Sincerity is another, and not the least, of the how-to-get-what=you-want basics. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | So I'm a square! Well, at least I'm not a square peg in a round hole. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | So, all right, I can't spell. Well, I can always find someone who can! |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Sometimes, a woman filled with all sorts of uncertainties in most of the areas of life and emotion, will have her only confidence and independence in her fashion-sense. I'm sure this is a misfortune. Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Start learning about what others thinking. And start learning something from what they think. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Success can't be forced. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | The fashion-wise woman doesn't run herself frantic trying to keep up with the latest rage, fad or craze. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | There are no ugly ducklings. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Two of my favorite dresses cost practically nothing. |
Popularity: -4
Vote: | Uncontrolled emotion is as undisciplined and needlessly destructive as starting a forest fire with a carelessly tossed match or cigarette. After all, forests can be replanted. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We got our first TV set. I was enchanted with the recurrent presence, in our home, of Kate Smith and Ted Mack. I was sure that television would grow. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | We must resist the temptations to be very wasteful of simple things, tossing them aside as of no consequence, in a world of almost frenetic concentration on material success. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. |
Popularity: -4
Vote: | What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know. I believed all those love stories - the hero was the hero-because that's what I grew up with. I loved the romance and the roses, but when it came to a more realistic life, I would back away. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | When I was still a baby my father went away one day and never came back. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | When we came to do the take, I did it my way. I played it with all the emotional abandon I possessed and loved every second of my performance. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | You get out of fashion what you put into it, just as you do out of life. If you want only its rewards, and reject its disciplines, you're stuck where you start. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants. |