Top 93 Quotes About Doris Day
#1. But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.
Chaka Khan
#2. My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
Oscar Levant
#4. I loved all those Doris Day visuals of her being a tomboy and then changing into this gorgeous girl in a ballgown.
Stella McCartney
#5. They were grooming Doris Day to take over the top spot. Jack L. Warner asked me to play her sister in one picture. I said, "Come on, Jack. No one could ever believe that I would have Doris Day for a sister."
Joan Crawford
#6. The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine all topped the charts in the '50s. Load a playlist of rock n' roll royalty. You're spoilt for choice.
Sara Sheridan
#7. As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously ... I'm the girl the truck drivers love.
Betty Grable
#8. I'm always looking for insights into the real Doris Day because I'm stuck with this infatuation and need to explain it to myself.
John Updike
#9. Doris Day started performing at a young age, had a tough road to success, and once she achieved it delivered the goods 100 percent and brilliantly, always making difficult work look as easy as breathing.
Robert Osborne
#10. I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.
Edward Herrmann
#11. SUCCESS: IS THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF LIFE AND WHAT IT BRINGS.. Doris Day said:What will be will be. =)
A. R D.D M.G.
#12. You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?
Bruce Johnston
#13. When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.
Roger Ebert
#14. I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life ... The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.
Nick Hornby
#15. I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
Imelda May
#16. Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day!
John Wayne
#17. I love Judy Garland, I love Doris Day, I love Marilyn Monroe. I love everything that comes from that era. The music is just beautiful and powerful - and simple. That's what makes it so great.
Emmy Rossum
#19. My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem
then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
Erica Jong
#20. I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
Kara DioGuardi
#21. Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.
Margaret Whiting
#22. I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country ... I love this country so much.
Doris Day
#23. The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had become legendary figures in the public imagination-vast, overshadowing behemoths whose colossal power seemed to reach everywhere.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#24. I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.
Doris Day
#25. I rented a place that I could have dogs - not in my house. I rented a big place. And I was able to have the SPCA every end of the week bring many, many dogs to me. They all were in nice places, clean, everything was fine. I took good care of them. And so many people called.
Doris Day
#26. When I see Liz Taylor with those Harry Winston boulders hanging from her neck I get nauseated. Not figuratively, but nauseated! All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.
Doris Day
#27. I like joy; I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
Doris Day
#28. Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris Day
#29. I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.
Doris Day
#30. It's quite an experience to have filming done in your house. When they come in, they photograph every piece of furniture and where it is so they can get them back exactly where you had them. You'd never know they'd been here.
Doris Day
#32. It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost.
Doris Day
#33. For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.
Doris Day
#34. I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.
Doris Day
#35. Your skin, and your whole body, goes into repair mode when you sleep.
Doris Day
#36. I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!
Doris Day
#38. The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.
Doris Day
#39. When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author
then perhaps it is time to throw the book aside, as having had its day, and start again on something new.
Doris Lessing
#40. She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#41. If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?
Doris Day
#42. I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.
Doris Day
#43. If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
Doris Day
#44. Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
Doris Day
#45. I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes ... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky.
Doris Day
#46. In the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.
Doris Day
#47. No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.
Doris Day
#49. The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens every day in any country ... I was really astounded that some people were shocked.
Doris Lessing
#50. Any girl can look glamorous ... just stand there and look stupid.
Doris Day
#51. The meanest man in the world," he remarked, "is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#52. Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day
#53. I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
Doris Day
#54. I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
Doris Day
#55. Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Doris Day
#56. Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?
Doris Day
#57. I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
Doris Day
#58. FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#60. She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.
Doris Lessing
#61. The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
Doris Day
#62. A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.
Doris Day
#63. If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.
Doris Day
#64. It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
Doris Day
#65. I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#66. I don't know if I want to get married again.
Doris Day
#67. I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.
Doris Day
#68. DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.
Doris Day
#69. I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.
Doris Day
#70. If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
Doris Day
#71. If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
Doris Day
#72. I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.
Doris Day
#73. We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why do this, you may ask? Because it'll be fun.
Rick Mercer
#74. My best advice for
you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work
like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll
make a wonderful life.
Doris Betts
#75. After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without the comfort of family or friends, Whitman wrote, nothing of ordinary misfortune seems as it used to.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#76. I've just always loved animals.
Doris Day
#77. When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.
Doris Day
#78. I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time
Doris Day
#79. Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.
Doris Day
#80. Sometimes I think I should have stayed longer and I should have done more films.
Doris Day
#81. It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'
Doris Lessing
#82. It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.
Doris Day
#83. Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.
Doris Grumbach
#84. The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
#85. If you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.
Doris Day
#86. Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
Doris Day
#87. I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.
Doris Day
#88. Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#89. You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.
Doris Day
#90. One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#91. When resentment and contention threatened to destroy his administration, he refused to be provoked by petty grievances, to submit to jealousy, or to brood over perceived slights. Through the appalling pressures he faced day after day, he retained an unflagging faith in his country's cause.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#92. I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.
Doris Day
#93. When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take ... I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.
Doris Day
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