A biography for Loretta Younghasn’t been written yet.
“I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.”
“Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.”
“In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.”
“I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.”
“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.”
“A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.”
“What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.”
“I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.”
“A charming woman is a busy woman.”
“Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.”
“In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.”
“Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.”
“Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.”
“If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.”
“A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.”
“I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.”
“Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.”
“I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.”
“No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.”
“Success can't be forced.”