Top 56 Doris Day Quotes
#1. I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.
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#2. If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
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#3. If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
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#4. I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.
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#5. DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.
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#6. I don't know if I want to get married again.
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#7. It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
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#8. If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.
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#9. A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.
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#10. The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
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#12. I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.
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#13. When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take ... I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.
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#14. I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.
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#15. You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.
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#16. I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.
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#17. Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
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#18. I've just always loved animals.
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#19. The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
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#20. It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.
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#21. Sometimes I think I should have stayed longer and I should have done more films.
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#22. Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.
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#23. I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time
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#24. When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.
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#25. If you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.
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#27. I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!
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#28. Your skin, and your whole body, goes into repair mode when you sleep.
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#29. I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.
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#30. For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.
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#31. It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost.
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#33. It's quite an experience to have filming done in your house. When they come in, they photograph every piece of furniture and where it is so they can get them back exactly where you had them. You'd never know they'd been here.
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#34. I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.
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#35. Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
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#36. I like joy; I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
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#37. When I see Liz Taylor with those Harry Winston boulders hanging from her neck I get nauseated. Not figuratively, but nauseated! All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.
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#38. I rented a place that I could have dogs - not in my house. I rented a big place. And I was able to have the SPCA every end of the week bring many, many dogs to me. They all were in nice places, clean, everything was fine. I took good care of them. And so many people called.
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#39. I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.
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#40. I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country ... I love this country so much.
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#41. I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
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#42. Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?
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#43. Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
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#44. I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
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#45. I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
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#46. Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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#47. Any girl can look glamorous ... just stand there and look stupid.
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#49. No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.
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#50. In the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.
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#51. I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes ... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky.
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#52. Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
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#53. If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
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#54. I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.
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#55. If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?
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#56. The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.
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