Loretta Young Quotes (79 Quotes)

It's so important to look relaxed.

As soon as I get home from a day of work, I bathe, brush my hair, put on fresh makeup, and slip into a hostess gown.

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

Hands are always conspicuous, and if used carelessly, they'll always detract, never be a plus to the enhancement of personality.

We must resist the temptations to be very wasteful of simple things, tossing them aside as of no consequence, in a world of almost frenetic concentration on material success.

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

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

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

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

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

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

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?

A charming woman is a busy woman.

Every best-dressed woman keeps some of her gowns for years. She's learned that fashion-wisdom is compounded of knowledge, taste, confidence and poise.

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.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

I was always independent. I never wanted to follow the crowd, but I think that following the crow is more typical of teenage behavior today than in my day. And I do deplore it.

I well remember how sure I was of myself when I was in my teens. I'm not critical of teens today.

One of the loveliest women I know has the most unrelieved assemblage of homely features I've ever seen.

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?

Personal feelings should not enter into business-getting the job done is all that interests the boss.

Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

I'd lived by quotations, practically 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!

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

There are no ugly ducklings.