A beguiling lady doesn't take after the swarm. She is herself.
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.
Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
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?
Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
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!
Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.
Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.
Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.
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.
Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.
I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
Success can't be forced.
In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
A charming woman is a busy woman.
I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
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.
I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
