Top 25 Quotes About Joan Fontaine
#1. Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.
Joan Fontaine
#2. I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.
Deanna Raybourn
#4. My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.
Joan Fontaine
#5. The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important is love and romance.
Joan Fontaine
#6. I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!
Joan Fontaine
#7. [On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?
Joan Fontaine
#8. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.
Joan Fontaine
#10. I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.
Joan Fontaine
#11. If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.
Vilfredo Pareto
#12. Vulnerability is a pretty scary thing. You can feel naked in a lot of different ways.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#13. That Oscar can be a jinx ... It can ... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.
Joan Fontaine
#14. Tons of women would love to have sex with me. I hate the image of black men as promiscuous and unable to control themselves sexually. I don't like that image.
Will Smith
#15. If it doesn't happen to you, it doesn't happen at all.
John Green
#16. It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.
Joan Fontaine
#17. Five years of love , and they only fit in such a small box.
Ana Tejano
#18. It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.
Joan Fontaine
#19. The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.
Joan Fontaine
#20. One puzzling thing about men
they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.
Joan Fontaine
#21. If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.
Lee Smolin
#23. Goodness knows, I tried. But I think it's virtually impossible for the right kind of man to be married to a movie star.
Joan Fontaine
#24. I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine, and my niece, Deborah, and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.
Olivia De Havilland
#25. If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.
Joan Fontaine
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