Quotes by Loretta Young

• I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.
• Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.
• Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
• It's so important to look relaxed.
• In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
• 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.
• In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
• If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.
• If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
• I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
• I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
• 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.
• Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
• In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
• Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
• Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
• No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
• Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
• Success can't be forced.
• The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
• There are no ugly ducklings.
• There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
• Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
• What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.
• Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
• I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
• Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
• Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
• 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.
• A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
• 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.
• A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
• As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
• Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
• Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
• I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.
• Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
• Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
• Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.
• I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
• I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.
• I was a very wanting child.
• I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
• A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
• I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
• I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
• I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
• I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
• I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
• I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
• I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
• I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?
• I don't yearn to be a child again.
• I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
• A charming woman doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.