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Quotes by Loretta Young

A charming woman is a busy woman.
– Loretta Young
A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
– Loretta Young
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
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
– Loretta Young
A friend of mine recently developed a habit of making up her mouth larger. For a while the little extra over-line was becoming. But as weeks went by, she had unconsciously increased the size of her lips until her only rival could be a Ubangi.
– Loretta Young
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
– Loretta Young
A woman who's that sold on personal comfort is bound to be sloppy, too, in her personal relationships.
– Loretta Young
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
– Loretta Young
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
As soon as I get home from a day of work, I bathe, brush my hair, put on fresh makeup, and slip into a hostess gown.
– Loretta Young
At the beginning of World War II, a fine young actor placed his whole career-work, money, popularity-on the altar of what he believed... Our country was at war. Very few cared what he said. He was accused, judged, vilified.
– Loretta Young
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
– Loretta Young
Every best-dressed woman keeps some of her gowns for years. She's learned that fashion-wisdom is compounded of knowledge, taste, confidence and poise.
– Loretta Young
Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
– Loretta Young
Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
– Loretta Young
Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else.
– Loretta Young
Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
– Loretta Young
Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.
– Loretta Young
Hands are always conspicuous, and if used carelessly, they'll always detract, never be a plus to the enhancement of personality.
– Loretta Young
I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
– Loretta Young
I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.
– Loretta Young
I believe that a life without religion is, truly, an impoverished existence. I believe in the efficacy of prayer and have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith.
– Loretta Young
I believe that if each and every person really worked to possess self-respect and genuine regard for his fellowman, there could be no crime. There could be no wars.
– Loretta Young
I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
– Loretta Young
I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
– Loretta Young
I believed I could play roles of substance and meaning.
– Loretta Young
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
I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
– Loretta Young
I did not work for nine months. I thought I'd go stark, raving mad with all that idleness-time.
– 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
I don't know many ambition-ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.
– Loretta Young
I don't yearn to be a child again.
– Loretta Young
I feel almost sad whenever I see a woman stare blankly into space.
– Loretta Young
I felt I was in a sparkling, tinsel-lined, successful box-office career-rut.
– Loretta Young
I have a full, rich respect for fashion. I love its whimsy, its humor, its charm and its rewards. I love its vagaries and its demands. I love what it does for women. But I know, with all my heart, that no woman should follow it blindly.
– Loretta Young
I know elderly people who have so lived in their long lives. Today, they find great pleasure in each and every day.
– Loretta Young
I learned a lot of things from Colleen Moore.
– Loretta Young
I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
– Loretta Young
I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
– Loretta Young
I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.
– Loretta Young
I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
– Loretta Young
I was a very wanting child.
– Loretta Young
I was always independent. I never wanted to follow the crowd, but I think that following the crow is more typical of teenage behavior today than in my day. And I do deplore it.
– Loretta Young
I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
– Loretta Young
I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
– Loretta Young
I was not quite 4 when Mamma moved all of us and all our worldly goods to Hollywood.
– Loretta Young
I was very lucky. I had a marvelous family behind me. A wise mother.
– Loretta Young
I well remember how sure I was of myself when I was in my teens. I'm not critical of teens today.
– Loretta Young
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
– Loretta Young
I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.
– Loretta Young
I'll bet even Helen of Troy had to have at least a little sunshine in her disposition.
– Loretta Young
I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
– Loretta Young
I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.
– Loretta Young
I'ts heartbreaking to see many people who merely long for success. They're on a sort of treadmill, plodding along, getting exactly nowhere. They haven't mastered their dreams. They've let their dreams master them, and what makes it so sad is that they don't know why others get where they want to go!
– Loretta Young
I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.
– Loretta Young
I've always been scared to death of pain-afraid, even, to think of it.
– Loretta Young
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
– Loretta Young
If you believe in prayer, if you storm heaven with your prayers, almost miraculous things can happen!
– Loretta Young
If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
– Loretta Young
If you use disappointments as sort of mid-semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger-and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.
– Loretta Young
If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.
– Loretta Young
Ignorance is no excuse! That's the Law!
– Loretta Young
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
– Loretta Young
In a way, it's mathematically sure that if your poise is showing, if you are unhurried and unharried, you're on your budget.
– Loretta Young
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
– Loretta Young
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
In silence-and in self-defense-I figured things out in my own little way.
– Loretta Young
It's so important to look relaxed.
– Loretta Young
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
– Loretta Young
Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.
– Loretta Young
Learning my craft as an actress is an ever-present challenge, a never-failing source of development.
– Loretta Young
Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
– Loretta Young
Listening is more than just a very rewarding habit. After awhile you discover what a world of information you can gain from hearing what others say, and If you're interested, you're interesting. All the most popular people are good listeners.
– Loretta Young
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
– Loretta Young
Maybe it was my acting like a big star all over the place at home that got us all enrolled at the convent, where for stellar, individualistic tactics, there was no possibility of reward.
– Loretta Young
My entrance on The Loretta Young Show meant much more to me than any actress's entrance I'd ever made. Every time I opened that door I was a hostess greeting very welcome guests. It is a greeting which is very meaningful to me.
– Loretta Young
My presentation to the Queen of England and having her speak to me so personally was a great and unforgettable honor.
– Loretta Young
My work has brought me into contact with the world's finest designers. I had a lot to learn. I have learned a lot. I found out you can learn a lot about yourself as a person, too-while you're learning how to use fashion in your life.
– Loretta Young
Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
– Loretta Young
Neither sheep nor mavericks will ever get to the head of the class. Ignorance is forgivable, unorthodoxy is tolerated. Bad taste and expulsion are synonymous.
– Loretta Young
No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
– Loretta Young
No woman can really tell-sometimes she doesn't even realize-all the things she learns when the man of her life replaces the Prince of her dreams.
– Loretta Young
Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
– Loretta Young
One of the loveliest women I know has the most unrelieved assemblage of homely features I've ever seen.
– Loretta Young
Personal feelings should not enter into business-getting the job done is all that interests the boss.
– Loretta Young
Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.
– Loretta Young
Shopping is a public appearance. All women should be sure they aren't dressed for the back yard or the kitchen, the beach or a dinner dance, when they go to shop or to market.
– Loretta Young
Sincerity is another, and not the least, of the how-to-get-what=you-want basics.
– Loretta Young
So I'm a square! Well, at least I'm not a square peg in a round hole.
– Loretta Young
So, all right, I can't spell. Well, I can always find someone who can!
– Loretta Young
Sometimes, a woman filled with all sorts of uncertainties in most of the areas of life and emotion, will have her only confidence and independence in her fashion-sense. I'm sure this is a misfortune. Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
– Loretta Young
Start learning about what others thinking. And start learning something from what they think.
– Loretta Young
Success can't be forced.
– Loretta Young
The fashion-wise woman doesn't run herself frantic trying to keep up with the latest rage, fad or craze.
– Loretta Young
The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
– Loretta Young
There are no ugly ducklings.
– Loretta Young
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
– Loretta Young
Two of my favorite dresses cost practically nothing.
– Loretta Young
Uncontrolled emotion is as undisciplined and needlessly destructive as starting a forest fire with a carelessly tossed match or cigarette. After all, forests can be replanted.
– Loretta Young
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
– Loretta Young