Shirley Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.
-- Shirley Jones

#Hardship #Watches #Assuming
I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.
-- Shirley Jones

#Animal #World #Veterinarian
We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.
-- Shirley Jones

#Regret #Careers #Way
I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.
-- Shirley Jones

#Fans #Kind
There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends.
-- Shirley Jones

#Change #Ends #Spend Time
The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.
-- Shirley Jones

#Reality #Feelings #World
I wanted some family structure and stability, and thats what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.
-- Shirley Jones

#Kids #Home #Facts
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.
-- Shirley Jones

#Names #Done #Motion Pictures
I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.
-- Shirley Jones

#Thinking #People #Genius
It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.
-- Shirley Jones

#Wake Up #Annoying #Habit
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
-- Shirley Jones

#Children #School #Salary

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