Rosalind Russell famous quotes

03-26-2025

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Life #Beauty #Beautiful
Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Taste #Becoming #Wonderful
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Funny #Life #Movie
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Motivational #Theatre #Acting
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Motivational #Girl #Goal
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Memorable #Funeral #Political
Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Movie #Couple #People
It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Successful #Careers #Joy
My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Mother #Forgiving #Tautology
Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Pain #Years #And Love
Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Movie #Giving #Theatre
It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Adventure #Enormous #Extraordinary
The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Men #Feet #Scene
In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife.
-- Rosalind Russell

#My Best Friend #Littles #Telephones
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
-- Rosalind Russell

#Beauty #Deprivation #Starvation
The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Night #White #House
I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Lines #Defence #Behinds
I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.
-- Rosalind Russell

#Ems

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