Loretta Young Quotes

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

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.

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

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

There are no ugly ducklings.

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

Success can’t be forced.

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

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

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

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.

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

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