Paulette Goddard Quotes

#1. [on Paulette Goddard] It was her honesty I liked.

Veronica Lake

#2. I do believe that it takes a strong dose of alienation to make a good artist or writer in the modern world. You can't be too well-adjusted and still have anything interesting to say.

Howard Sounes

#3. I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

Paulette Goddard

#4. I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

Paulette Goddard

#5. You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who donshis neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous.

Paulette Goddard

#7. I love doing TV. It's such a breakneck pace, you know. It's kiss and go with your leading man. You meet them in the morning and go right into a clinch. The filming is over before you know their last names.

Paulette Goddard

#8. It's sad being the funniest person you know.

Grea Alexander

#9. I lived in Hollywood long enough to
learn to play tennis and become a star,
but I never felt it was my home.

Paulette Goddard

#10. Among ourselves (Westerners), the people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forgo ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

#11. It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

Ken Jennings

#12. So, what's she done? he asked casually while taking out a tray of wet

Tina Folsom

#13. I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable.

Paulette Goddard

#14. You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.

Paulette Goddard

#15. Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.

Paulette Goddard