Loretta Young Quotes

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

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

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

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

There are no ugly ducklings.

A charming woman is a busy woman.

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.

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

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

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

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

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

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

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

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

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

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?

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

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

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

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

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!

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?

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

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

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

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

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.

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

It's so important to look relaxed.

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

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

I don't yearn to be a child again.

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

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

Success can't be forced.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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