Best 50 quotes of Loretta Young on MyQuotes

A charming woman is a busy woman.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.

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

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

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

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?

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

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

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?

I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.

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

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

If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

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

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

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

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

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

It's so important to look relaxed.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

There are no ugly ducklings.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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