Claudette Colbert Quotes

#1. I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#2. Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#3. You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#4. The fact that dogs are not people means you don't have as much response to the particulars. - Author: Susan Orlean

#5. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#6. 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. - Author: Loretta Lynn

#7. 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? - Author: Julian Fellowes

#8. Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#9. 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. - Author: Eve Golden

#10. Everything is determined by your interpretation of what happens. You can change the meaning of what happens through your perception of events or memories. - Author: Steven Redhead

#11. 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. - Author: Kathleen Brooks

#12. 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. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#13. It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#14. 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. - Author: William Blake

#15. 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. - Author: Louie Anderson

#16. 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. - Author: John Conroe

#17. 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. - Author: Winona Ryder

#18. It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#19. The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#20. Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#21. I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#22. I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period. - Author: Claudette Colbert

#23. Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them. - Author: Claudette Colbert