I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

I don’t yearn to be a child again.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

Success can’t be forced.

Just because you want to be glamorous, don’t be a sheep about your eye makeup.

I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it’s the world that’s changed. Human nature hasn’t.

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

What you don’t know intrigues you more than what you do know.

I’d thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

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There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

I’d lived by quotations, practically all my life.

I couldn’t bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

There are no ugly ducklings.

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In silence – and in self-defense – I figured things out in my own little way.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I’ve dealt with them nearly all my life.

When we came to do the take, I did it my way. I played it with all the emotional abandon I possessed and loved every second of my performance.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don’t criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

A charming woman is a busy woman.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

If you have enthusiasm you have a very dynamic effective companion to travel with you on the road to somewhere.

Glamour is something you can’t bear to be without once you’re used to it.

As soon as I get home from a day of work, I bathe, brush my hair, put on fresh makeup, and slip into a hostess gown.

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

I was a very wanting child.

Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

I’m not sure the public knows what it wants.

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that’s what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

It’s so important to look relaxed.

I’ve learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

I’ve always been scared to death of pain – afraid, even, to think of it.

I’m grateful to God for His bountiful gifts… He gave me courage and faith in myself.

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone. Who’s to be the judge of that?