Loretta Young Quotes

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?

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

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

There are no ugly ducklings.

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 hated school ... One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell ...

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.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

It's so important to look relaxed.

Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

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

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.

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.

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

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

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

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

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.

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

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

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

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

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

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

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

I was a very wanting child.

Success can't be forced.

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

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

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

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

A beguiling lady doesn't take after the swarm. She is herself.

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it ... its appeal is permanent.

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

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

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

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

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

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

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

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

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

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

A charming woman is a busy woman.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

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?