Ida Lupino Quotes

#1. My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

Bea Arthur

#2. I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

Ray Bradbury

#3. I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

Camille Paglia

#4. I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

Ida Lupino

#5. I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

Ida Lupino

#6. I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.

Ida Lupino

#7. That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.

Ida Lupino

#8. A woman in show business isn't honest with herself ... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.

Ida Lupino

#9. Friendship is strengthened by ... that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#10. Be quiet, or I'll run you through with my sword."
"I'd much rather run you through with mine," he suggested, his voice a sexy rumble that made her shiver.

Tamara Hughes

#11. I had no desire to crash a man's world.

Ida Lupino

#12. Cause you know, we live in different time, me in your yesterday, you in my tomorrow.

Changdictator

#13. I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.

Ida Lupino

#14. British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is now happening in the U.K.

Jamie Bamber

#15. Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Ida Lupino

#16. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

Ida Lupino

#17. I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.

Ida Lupino

#18. Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power ... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

Ida Lupino

#19. We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

Joy Davidman

#20. Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.

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#21. You cannot play naive if you're not.

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#22. Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.

Katrina Kenison

#23. Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

Ida Lupino

#24. Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

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#25. 'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.

Ida Lupino

#26. I'd rather work all night and sleep all day ... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.

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#27. I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.

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#28. Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

Elbert Hubbard

#29. I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

Ida Lupino