Top 67 Loretta Young Quotes
#1. A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it ... its appeal is permanent.
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#2. I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.
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#3. Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.
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#4. 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.
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#5. I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
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#6. I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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!
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#9. I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
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#10. 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.
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#11. I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
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#12. Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
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#13. Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
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#14. Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
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#15. In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
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#16. 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.
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#17. I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world.
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#18. I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
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#20. As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
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#21. 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.
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#22. I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
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#23. 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.
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#24. Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
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#25. A charming woman ... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
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#26. I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts ... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
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#27. If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.
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#28. The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
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#29. I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
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#30. I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
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#31. I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
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#32. A beguiling lady doesn't take after the swarm. She is herself.
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#33. Every day, no matter what I'm doing, I say, 'Lord, I'll do the best I can, and You do the rest.
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#35. Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.
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#36. What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.
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#37. 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?
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#38. If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
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#39. I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
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#40. In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
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#43. Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
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#44. 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?
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#46. Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
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#48. No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
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#49. 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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#50. A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
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#51. Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
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#52. I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.
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#53. 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.
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#54. Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
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#55. I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
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#56. Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
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#58. Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
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#59. Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
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#62. Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
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#63. 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.
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#64. In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
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#65. I hated school ... One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell ...
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#66. I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
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#67. There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
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