Loretta Young famous quotes

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

#Empowerment #Crowds #Charming

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

#Fashion #Character #Should

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

#Dresses #Matter #Manners

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
-- Loretta Young

#Love #Uplifting #I Like You

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

#Travel #Enthusiasm #Funny Travel

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

#Prayer #Powerful #Believe

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.
-- Loretta Young

#Believe #Golden #I Believe

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

#Eye #Makeup #Sheep

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

#Ideas #Giving #House

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
-- Loretta Young

#Beauty #Beautiful #Achievement

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

#Giving #Credit #Rewards

A charming woman is a busy woman.
-- Loretta Young

#Busy #Charming #Charming Woman

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
-- Loretta Young

#Beauty #Believe #Home

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

#Penalties #Worthwhile #Wanted

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

#Impossible #Posture #Made

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

#Home #Boys #Dating

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

#Self Confidence #Self #Bears

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

#Determination #Careers #Resumes

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

#Jobs #Actresses #Criticize

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

#Teens #Enthusiasm #Habit

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

#Courage #Grateful #Grateful To God

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
-- Loretta Young

#Disappointment #Mistake #Thinking

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

#Self #Silence #Defense

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

#Hurt #Thinking #Long

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

#Girl #Dream #Princess

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

#Stars #Fall #Lovely

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

#Teacher #Way #Mets

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

#Voice #Attractive #Appeals

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

#Struggle #Average #Giving

I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world.
-- Loretta Young

#Believe #World #Separation

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.
-- Loretta Young

#Self #Selfishness #Charm

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.
-- Loretta Young

#Growing Up #Discipline #Facts

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

#Wise #Strong #Disappointment

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

#Teenage #Thinking #Different

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

#Mirrors #Quitting #Length

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

#Matter #Lord

It's so important to look relaxed.
-- Loretta Young

#Important #Looks #Relaxed

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

#Education #Branches #Common

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

#Agency #Television #Mediums

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

#Dumb #Blind #Deaf

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

#Time #Stars #Bigs

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

#Life #Quotations

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

#Business #Actresses #Emotion

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 #Born

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

#School #Disability #Reason

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
-- Loretta Young

#Eye #Hands #Voice

There are no ugly ducklings.
-- Loretta Young

#Ugly Duckling #Ugly #Ducklings

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

#Pain #Thinking #Scared

I was a very wanting child.
-- Loretta Young

#Children

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

#Time #Care #Splits

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.
-- Loretta Young

#Money #Real #Way

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

#Tears #Use #Should

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

#Style #Bears #Glamour

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
-- Loretta Young

#Believe #I Believe #Nurture

I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.
-- Loretta Young

#Prayer #Father #Believe

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

#Ambition #People #Hunger

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.
-- Loretta Young

#Gratitude #Emotion

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

#Thinking #Despair #Want

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

#Dream #Men #Impatient

Success can't be forced.
-- Loretta Young

#Reality

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

#Business #Fighting

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
-- Loretta Young

#Believe #Yesterday #Today

I don't yearn to be a child again.
-- Loretta Young

#Children

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

#Intrigue

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

#Praying #Rich #Poor

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

#Want #Not Sure