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I did my best, and God did the rest.
— Hattie McDaniel
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
— Hattie McDaniel
To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.
— Hattie Carnegie
Hattie's children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee.
— Ayana Mathis
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!
— Hattie McDaniel
I'd rather play a maid than be one.
— Hattie McDaniel
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
— Hattie McDaniel
Hattie felt as if someone had reached inside her breast, grabbed her heart, and twisted it out of her body, only to discard it in the slop bucket.
— Pamela Morsi
The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.
— Hattie McDaniel
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
— Hattie McDaniel
Some things you can't apologize for, you just have to try to get around them," Hattie replied. "For your own sake too, so you can have a little peace.
— Ayana Mathis
I've played everything but a harp.
— Hattie McDaniel
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.
— Hattie McDaniel
Your life will not change overnight it will take time.
— Hattie T. Hoerner
My God, but you are hard to love," Hattie
— Ayana Mathis
I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work.
— Hattie Carnegie
Hattie was like a lake of smooth, silvered ice, under which nothing could be seen or known.
— Ayana Mathis
When I was 8 years old, I knew what I was going to be - an actress.
— Hattie McDaniel
Everyone is worthy of love." - Hattie
— Stephanie Perkins
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
— Hattie McDaniel
Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.
— Hattie Morahan
I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.
— Hattie McDaniel
The finest fury is the most controlled.
— Christopher Hitchens
You ought to go now before she wakes up, Hattie said. She handed her daughter to Pearl. I'm in the floor, she thought.
— Ayana Mathis
I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.
— Hattie Morahan
In Georgia, there was a eucalyptus tree in the wood across from Hattie's house, but the plant had been hard to come by in the Philadelphia winter.
— Ayana Mathis
good-byes to Hattie, and she was cordial enough,
— Tim LaHaye
A woman's gifts will make room for her.
— Hattie McDaniel
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
— Hattie McDaniel
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
— Hattie McDaniel
The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.
— Hattie McDaniel
At last, her mother and sisters exited the station and came to stand next to her. "Mama," Hattie said. "I'll never go back. Never.
— Ayana Mathis
I love the virtuosity and imaginative chutzpah of 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and not just because my boyfriend is in it!
— Hattie Morahan
For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.
— Hattie Morahan
Hattie handed me a fresh cup of coffee. "Off you go now. Write a masterpiece that will save the world," she cackled nudging me out of the kitchen.
— Kaylie Hunter
It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.
— Hattie McDaniel
Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.
— Hattie Morahan
I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.
— Hattie Morahan
I'm letting no man handle my bank account.
— Hattie McDaniel
Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
— Hattie McDaniel
It's dreadfully tiresome to keep one's true self hidden" -Hattie
— Jessica Lawson
I always have the best of everything.
— Hattie McDaniel
Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor ... help us keep our balance.
— Hattie McDaniel
Why should I complain about making $7,000 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.
— Hattie McDaniel
I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.
— Hattie McDaniel
I've obviously got one of those faces that people can forget.
— Hattie Morahan
You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.
— Hattie McDaniel
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.
— Hattie McDaniel
Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
— Hattie Morahan
Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.
— Hattie McDaniel
I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep.
— Hattie Morahan
I don't think, I will ever actually climb to the top of the ladder, as I am always adding more rungs.
— Hattie Carnegie
Taste is so much more important than fashion.
— Hattie Carnegie