Loretta Young Quotes

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

A charming woman is a busy woman.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

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?

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

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

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

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

A charming woman ... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

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

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

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.

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.

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

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

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.

Success can't be forced.

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.

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!

I don't yearn to be a child again.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

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.

Every day, no matter what I'm doing, I say, 'Lord, I'll do the best I can, and You do the rest.

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.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts ... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

It's so important to look relaxed.

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.

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.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.