Loretta Young Quotes


"Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Eye, Makeup, Sheep, Want)

"Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Enthusiasm, Habit)

"It's so important to look relaxed."
- Loretta Young
"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Self, Silence)

"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."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Dreams, Girls, Nothing)

"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Education, Profession)

"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Sun, Want)

"If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Travel, Enthusiasm, Road)

"I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Pretty, Struggle, Want)

"I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Death, Pain)

"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."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Money, Importance)

"Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Home, Charity, Glamour)

"In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Performance, Television)

"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Love)

"Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another."
- Loretta Young
"No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Old, Poor)

"Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Determination, Career)

"Success can't be forced."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Success)

"The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Time, Care, Woman)

"There are no ugly ducklings."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Ugly)

"There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Achievement, Being)

"Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Misfortune)

"What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know."
- Loretta Young
"Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Thoughts, Eyes, Voice)

"I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Faith, God, Courage, Gifts)

"Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Character, Courage, Fashion)

"Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Dress, 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!"
- Loretta Young
(Related: Job, Will)

"A charming woman is a busy woman."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Woman)

"A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Woman)

"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."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Idea, Faces, Houses)

"A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Stars, Talk)

"As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Life, Business, Emotions)

"Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Gifts, Tears)

"Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Value)

"I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Time, Thought)

"Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Habit, Credit, Giving)

"Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Glamour)

"Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Gratitude, Emotion)

"I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Living, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)

"I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it."
- Loretta Young
"I was a very wanting child."
- Loretta Young
"I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Life, Quotations)

"A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Voice)

"I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Force, Prayer, Universe)

"I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Blind, Dumb)

"I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Dream, Man)

"I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Despair, Thinking, Want)

"I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Self)

"I believe you have to nurture your conscience."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Conscience)

"I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Business, Fight)

"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?"
- Loretta Young
(Related: Dating, Family, Home, Life, Meeting)

"I don't yearn to be a child again."
- Loretta Young
"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?"
- Loretta Young
(Related: Hurt, Right, Want)

"I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Disappointments, Mistakes)