Anna Held Quotes

#1. Anna Held's birthdate and hometown are a dark mystery, thanks to her own mythmaking.

Eve Golden

#2. I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

Anna Held

#3. Anna turned away abruptly. "You needn't bother," she said. But the girl held her back. "No, don't go! Don't be such a goose. I want to know you! Don't you want to know me?

Joan G. Robinson

#4. I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.

Anna Held

#5. It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

Anna Held

#6. I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

Anna Held

#7. To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.

Anna Held

#8. I was very adept at acquiring languages.

Anna Held

#9. I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

Anna Held

#10. I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Anna Held

#11. I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

Anna Held

#12. Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Anna Held

#13. I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

Anna Held

#14. The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.

Anna Held

#15. There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

Anna Held

#16. Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

Anna Held

#17. It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts, but most of us prefer not to be sensible.

Anna Held

#18. Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.

Anna Held

#19. A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

Anna Held

#20. One does not re-light a dead cigarette.

Anna Held

#21. I know I am very beautiful.

Anna Held

#22. Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

Anna Eshoo

#23. I do not say anything from jealousy.

Anna Held

#24. Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

Anna Held

#25. My life held endless prospects, and I could've lived it so many different ways.

Anna Jarzab

#26. You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

Anna Held

#27. You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

Anna Held

#28. I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

Anna Held

#29. An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.

Anna Held

#30. No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

Anna Held

#31. I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

Anna Held

#32. No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Anna Held

#33. I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

Anna Held

#34. People look at me and look, but I do not care.

Anna Held

#35. If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

Anna Held

#36. Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'

Anna Held

#37. I don't believe in hasty marriages.

Anna Held

#38. At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.

Anna Held

#39. My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Anna Held

#40. I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me.

Anna Held

#41. How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

Anna Held

#42. I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, i remember Clifford Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.

Anna Held

#43. Anna took her solace where she always did. The smell of the earth, the touch of the sky held for her a special alchemy, able to turn loneliness into aloneness, and so make it, if not sacred, at least bearable.

Nevada Barr

#44. It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

Anna Held

#45. Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

Anna Held

#46. The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.

Anna Pavlova

#47. Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.

Anna Quindlen

#48. A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

Anna Held

#49. For a married woman to flirt is a sin.

Anna Held

#50. We must go fast, because the race is against time.

Anna Held

#51. I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

Anna Held

#52. And looking back, Ruby knew this was when it started; the slow unraveling of all that she had held as sure and true.

Anna Lawrence Pietroni

#53. Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

Anna Held