Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.
– Loretta Young
We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.
– Loretta Young
We got our first TV set. I was enchanted with the recurrent presence, in our home, of Kate Smith and Ted Mack. I was sure that television would grow.
– Loretta Young
We must resist the temptations to be very wasteful of simple things, tossing them aside as of no consequence, in a world of almost frenetic concentration on material success.
– Loretta Young
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
– Loretta Young
What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know. I believed all those love stories-the hero was the hero-because that's what I grew up with. I loved the romance and the roses, but when it came to a more realistic life, I would back away.
– Loretta Young
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
When I was still a baby my father went away one day and never came back.
– Loretta Young
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.
– Loretta Young
You get out of fashion what you put into it, just as you do out of life. If you want only its rewards, and reject its disciplines, you're stuck where you start.
– Loretta Young
Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.