Hattie McDaniel Quotes

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I'd rather play a maid than be one.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.

That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards, for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble; and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.