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

Ida Lupino

#10. I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Jonny Wilkinson

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

Ida Lupino

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

Ida Lupino

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

Ida Lupino

#14. 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

#15. The jewelry stores say, 'Tell your wife you love her with a diamond,' while wives tell you they love you with, 'Ok, but just because it's Valentine's Day.'

George Lopez

#16. 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

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

Ida Lupino

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

Ida Lupino

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

Ida Lupino

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

Ida Lupino

#21. '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

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

Ida Lupino

#23. There's something to be said for doing one thing right.

Lionel Ferbos

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

Ida Lupino

#25. When you're doing comedy, it is so subjective. What is funny to you is not funny to another person. What is dirty to you is not dirty to the other person. Comedy is one of those things you throw against the wall and see what sticks.

Larry The Cable Guy

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

Ida Lupino

#27. The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.
What is created by us is the degree to which these events touch our life

Neale Donald Walsch