Quotes About Olivia De Havilland

#1. 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

#2. I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better.

Dominic Cooper

#3. Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

Olivia De Havilland

#4. I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

Olivia De Havilland

#5. The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

Olivia De Havilland

#6. Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

Olivia De Havilland

#8. I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'

Phil Robertson

#9. There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.

Olivia De Havilland

#10. Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?

Olivia De Havilland

#11. Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Alain De Botton

#12. There are two kinds of courage: the courage that holds things together and the courage that throws them away. The first is more common; it is the cement of civilization; it is Lucy's. The second is the courage of drunks and suicides and mystics.

Douglas Glover

#13. I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.

Olivia De Havilland

#14. Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

Olivia De Havilland

#15. One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

Nick Saban

#16. All the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.

Olivia De Havilland

#17. One must take what comes, with laughter.

Olivia De Havilland

#18. 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

#19. You are still you. The U.S. is still the U.S., held together by credit cards and Indian names

John Updike

#20. I give Raffe a quick hug. I don't care who sees me at this point. Raffe might, though.

Susan Ee

#21. I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

Olivia De Havilland

#22. I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

Olivia De Havilland

#23. If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

Olivia De Havilland

#24. Have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

May Sarton

#25. We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

Olivia De Havilland

#26. I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.

Olivia De Havilland

#27. I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!

Olivia De Havilland

#28. If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

Amy Klobuchar

#29. It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.

Olivia De Havilland

#30. The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.

Olivia De Havilland

#31. What one fool can understand, another can.

Richard P. Feynman

#32. I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

Olivia De Havilland

#33. My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.

Olivia De Havilland

#34. Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation ...

William Rothenstein