Quotes About Claudette

#1. 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?

Julian Fellowes

#2. 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.

Eve Golden

#3. Claudette turned her arms upward to show us her tattooed wrists. One held the skull and crossbones of the Wilted Rose. The other resembled the flag which adorned the mast above us. A ship's wheel with two swords crossed through it.

Freedom Matthews

#4. 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.

Winona Ryder

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

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.

Loretta Lynn

#7. Men like us believe we are gods...

Claudette Walker

#8. Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.

Claudette Colbert

#9. I smiled up at him, but knew mine was no match for the warmth his held.

Claudette Melanson

#10. 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.

Claudette Colbert

#11. It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

Claudette Colbert

#12. Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.

B.F. Skinner

#13. Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Robert Kennedy

#14. It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

Claudette Colbert

#15. The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

Claudette Colbert

#16. How do you grieve for another you?

Claudia Gray

#17. Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.

Claudette Colbert

#18. I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.

Claudette Colbert

#19. I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.

Claudette Colvin

#20. We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

B.C. Forbes

#21. Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

Claudette Colbert

#22. Rulon motioned to me to help him up. I'd never imagined that my wedding night would involve a crash course in geriatric care, but my new husband was older than my grandpa Wall. Rulon was very tall, and it took all of my strength to get him up.

Rebecca Musser

#23. Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Allan Massie

#24. You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

Patricia Marx

#25. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

Claudette Colbert

#26. I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.

Claudette Colvin

#27. I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.

Brian Spellman

#28. If absence makes the heart grow stronger, it also wounds in the process.

Claudette Melanson

#29. You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.

Claudette Colbert

#30. Never forget to look back to see what your accomplishment.

Coltgasp

#31. Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.

Claudette Colbert

#32. I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

Claudette Colbert

#33. She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room.

Claudette Melanson