Anna Held Quotes


"One does not re-light a dead cigarette."
- Anna Held
"No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love."
- Anna Held
(Related: Love, Truth)

"No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere."
- Anna Held
(Related: Time)

"People look at me and look, but I do not care."
- Anna Held
(Related: People, Care)

"Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age."
- Anna Held
(Related: Age, Women, Mistake, Old, Reward)

"To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly."
- Anna Held
(Related: Art)

"It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once."
- Anna Held
(Related: Temptation)

"If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow."
- Anna Held
"My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not."
- Anna Held
(Related: Funny, People, Dogs)

"Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves."
- Anna Held
(Related: Divorce, Friends, Talk)

"Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do."
- Anna Held
(Related: Women)

"There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born."
- Anna Held
(Related: Time, Disgrace)

"We must go fast, because the race is against time."
- Anna Held
(Related: Time, Race)

"Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me."
- Anna Held
(Related: Success, Work, Ambition, Deserted, Fact, May, Old)

"Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone."
- Anna Held
(Related: Husband, Man, Right, Woman)

"You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience."
- Anna Held
"You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart."
- Anna Held
(Related: Man)

"I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it."
- Anna Held
(Related: People, Want)

"I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years."
- Anna Held
(Related: Work, Fortune, Want, Years)

"The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be."
- Anna Held
(Related: Will)

"I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me."
- Anna Held
"I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me."
- Anna Held
(Related: Time)

"A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet."
- Anna Held
(Related: Woman)

"At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them."
- Anna Held
(Related: Home, Paris, Road)

"Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you."
- Anna Held
(Related: Charm)

"Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences."
- Anna Held
(Related: Audiences, Will)

"For a married woman to flirt is a sin."
- Anna Held
(Related: Sin, Woman)

"How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy."
- Anna Held
(Related: Women, Courage, First, Water)

"I do not care for the money, just for the glory."
- Anna Held
(Related: Money, Care, Glory)

"I do not say anything from jealousy."
- Anna Held
(Related: Jealousy)

"I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better."
- Anna Held
(Related: Feelings, Care)

"I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know."
- Anna Held
(Related: People, Want)

"I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them."
- Anna Held
(Related: Eyes)

"I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook."
- Anna Held
(Related: Ability)

"I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held."
- Anna Held
(Related: Day)

"I don't believe in hasty marriages."
- Anna Held
"I know I am very beautiful."
- Anna Held
"A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married."
- Anna Held
(Related: Work, Fortune, Woman)

"I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing."
- Anna Held
(Related: Nothing, Trying)

"I was very adept at acquiring languages."
- Anna Held
"I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French."
- Anna Held
(Related: Cute, English, Tongue)