Olivia de Havilland famous quotes

03-28-2025

I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine, and my niece, Deborah, and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Niece #Expression #Appreciate
Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Girl #Thinking #Play
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#People #Wave #Natural
One must take what comes, with laughter.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Laughter #Aging
I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Worry #Mysterious
There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Believe #Chemistry
I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Typewriters #Cinema #Film
I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Perfect #Forever #Velvet
I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Crush #Regret #Blood
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Teacher #School #Government
I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Stars #Wind #Gone
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Easter #Scripture #Tasks
I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Blood #Cold #British
I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Mean #Perfect #Imagination
all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Country #Children #Ideas
My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Actresses #My Sister #Family Life
Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Fighting #Battle
It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Annoying
The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Crush #Soul #Tvs
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
-- Olivia de Havilland

#Cities #Long #Trying

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