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Loretta Young Quotes About Life

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?

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

Loretta Young Quotes About Women

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

A charming woman is a busy woman.

More Quotes by Loretta Young

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

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.

Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

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.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

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?

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

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!

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

I was a very wanting child.

Success can't be forced.

It's so important to look relaxed.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

There are no ugly ducklings.

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.

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