Top 23 Claudette Colbert Quotes
#1. Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?
Julian Fellowes
#2. In 1990 [Claudette Colbert] wished Vanity Fair readers "a fabulous new decade. I'm praying to make it to 2000. After all, I'll only be 97." She didn't quite make it.
Eve Golden
#3. Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age.
Winona Ryder
#4. I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.
Claudette Colbert
#5. My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.
Loretta Lynn
#6. Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.
Claudette Colbert
#8. Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Claudette Colbert
#9. The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.
Claudette Colbert
#11. I have no Native American heritage, but I had decided as a child that my spirit guide animal would be a bear. We were both loners and fighters, at least that's how I looked at it. I don't know how the Great Bear felt about it, as I had never given him the option to say no.
John Conroe
#12. I have a cousin Ernie who buys stuff. He's got a big snowblower that's actually the biggest snowblower you can buy, with a remote control, so he doesn't even have to go outside. He's got the microwave and a satellite dish, it's all in one. He cooks and watches at the same time.
Louie Anderson
#13. Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
William Blake
#14. It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.
Claudette Colbert
#15. I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.
Claudette Colbert
#16. one look his fears of a dog-fighting ring were valid. Blood was spattered around a makeshift wooden ring. Chains were piled up in a corner. He could see where the cages had been placed in the grass by the indents, but they were gone now. A dead cat was dangling from a tree branch.
Kathleen Brooks
#17. Everything is determined by your interpretation of what happens. You can change the meaning of what happens through your perception of events or memories.
Steven Redhead
#18. Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.
Claudette Colbert
#19. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
Claudette Colbert
#20. The fact that dogs are not people means you don't have as much response to the particulars.
Susan Orlean
#21. You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.
Claudette Colbert
#23. I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.
Claudette Colbert
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