Top 76 Loretta Young Quotes
#1. 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
#2. In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.
Karolyn Grimes
#3. No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
Loretta Young
#6. Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
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#8. 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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#9. Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
Loretta Young
#10. Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young
#11. 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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#12. In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
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#13. We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things.
Loretta Lynch
#14. The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.
Loretta Napoleoni
#15. I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
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#16. If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
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#17. 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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#18. I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.
Jewel
#19. What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.
Loretta Young
#20. Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.
Loretta Young
#21. There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
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#22. Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
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#23. I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
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#24. 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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#25. In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
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#26. 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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#27. Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
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#30. Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
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#31. 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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#33. Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
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#34. I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
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#35. Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
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#36. 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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#37. I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.
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#38. Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
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#43. Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
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#44. 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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#45. Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
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#46. I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
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#47. 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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#48. I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
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#49. 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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#50. 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.
Loretta Young
#51. I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
Loretta Young
#52. Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership that is calm, assertive, sure of themselves. And quite honestly, I don't think that some of these young Marines care if it's a male or a female. They just want to be properly led.
Loretta Reynolds
#53. I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
Loretta Young
#54. 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.
Loretta Young
#55. Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans.
Loretta Lynch
#56. Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.
Loretta Young
#57. I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.
Loretta Young
#58. 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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#59. A charming woman ... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
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#60. We've been at war for 10 years with this generation of Marines. We've seen women do a whole lot of things between the war in Iraq and the current war in Afghanistan. The fact that I'm sitting here making sure that we continue to put out the best young Marines is just a matter of it being 2011.
Loretta Reynolds
#61. A beguiling lady doesn't take after the swarm. She is herself.
Loretta Young
#62. 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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#63. I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
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#64. I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
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#65. The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
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#66. If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.
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#67. I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts ... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
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#68. 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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#69. Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
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#70. 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.
Loretta Young
#71. I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
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#72. 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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#73. 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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#75. I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
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#76. Clara will break him to bridle," Longmore said. "And if she can't cure his wild ways, who knows? Maybe he'll ride into a ditch or get run over by a post chaise, and she'll be a young widow. Do try to look on the bright side.
Loretta Chase
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