Quotes from Loretta Young

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

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

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

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.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

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

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

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

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 don't yearn to be a child again.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

There are no ugly ducklings.

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

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

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

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.