Laraine Day Quotes

#1. (On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.

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#2. I am very much a Republican.

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#3. Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.

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#4. M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

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#5. When you're a housekeeper's daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.

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#6. I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

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#7. Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.

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#8. My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

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#9. I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.

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#10. A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.

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#11. I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!

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#12. Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

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