Quotes from Rosalind Russell

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. ~Rosalind Russell

It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

Flops are a part of life's menu, and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.

The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.