Shirley Temple

“I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.”

“I ran for Congress, just once.”

“I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman.”

“I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.”

“There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.”

“I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.”

“Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.”

“I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.”

“My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.”

“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”

“Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.”

“Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.”

“I've always been bossy.”

“Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.”

“I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.”

“Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.”

“Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.”

“One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.'”

“I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world.”

“I did an imitation of him to make the crew laugh. To my shock, there was Cary Grant behind me. He got very angry. I was sent all the way from RKO to David Selznick's office and was told not to do it anymore. I thought to myself, 'I must have been pretty good to make him that angry.'”