Doris Day famous quotes

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
-- Doris Day

#Gratitude #Riches #Poverty

You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.
-- Doris Day

#Cat

I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.
-- Doris Day

#Animal #Opportunity #Differences

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
-- Doris Day

#Funny Love #Live Life #Animal

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
-- Doris Day

#Children #Wrinkles #Parent

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
-- Doris Day

#Dog #Companionship #Silent

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.
-- Doris Day

#Animal #Coats #Sin

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
-- Doris Day

#Wise #Time #Age

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit
-- Doris Day

#Imagination #Explicit #Vulgarity

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
-- Doris Day

#Animal #Garden #Wells

The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.
-- Doris Day

#Voice #Trying #Quality

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
-- Doris Day

#Beautiful #Fun #Clothes

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
-- Doris Day

#Birthday #Women #Memorable

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
-- Doris Day

#Stars #Ambition #Dancer

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
-- Doris Day

#Song #Men #Special

I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.
-- Doris Day

#Important #Trying #World

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.
-- Doris Day

#Would Be #Use #Want

I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!
-- Doris Day

#Laughing #Each Day #Way

Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.
-- Doris Day

#Thoughtful #Helping Others #Views

Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.
-- Doris Day

#Girl #Stupid #Looks

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.
-- Doris Day

#Animal #Thinking #Welfare

For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.
-- Doris Day

#Animal #People #Community

I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time
-- Doris Day

#Love #Family #Happiness

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.
-- Doris Day

#Animal #World

I like to sing love songs.
-- Doris Day

#Song

If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?
-- Doris Day

#People #Fame

if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.
-- Doris Day

#Success #Depressing #Games

I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.
-- Doris Day

#Loyalty #Dog #Found

I like Michael Buble.
-- Doris Day

Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?
-- Doris Day

#Believe #Scripts #Projects

I don't know if I want to get married again.
-- Doris Day

#Funny Love #Want #Married

I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.
-- Doris Day

#Animal #People #Appreciate

I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much.
-- Doris Day

#Country #Grateful #Ohio

I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.
-- Doris Day

#Blessed #People #Amazing Life

A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.
-- Doris Day

#Beautiful #Gains #Refuse

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.
-- Doris Day

#Girl #Guy #Married

It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.
-- Doris Day

#Body #Said #Automobile

I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.
-- Doris Day

#Dolls #Down And #Matter

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.
-- Doris Day

#Animal #People #Mets

I've just always loved animals.
-- Doris Day

#Animal

If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.
-- Doris Day

#Success #You Can Do It

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
-- Doris Day

#Cousin #Uncles #Aunt

I don't even like parties.
-- Doris Day

#Party

If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
-- Doris Day

#Silly #Men #People

If there is a heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
-- Doris Day

#Rocks #Heaven #Kind

DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.
-- Doris Day

#Jobs #Nice #Believe

in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.
-- Doris Day

#Sex #Adventure #Fiction