Loretta Young
Loretta Young
Loretta Youngwas an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 best actress Academy Award for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer's Daughter, and received an Oscar nomination for her role in Come to the Stable, in 1949. Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth6 January 1913
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
Sometimes, a woman filled with all sorts of uncertainties in most of the areas of life and emotion, will have her only confidence and independence in her fashion-sense. I'm sure this is a misfortune. Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
No woman can really tell-sometimes she doesn't even realize-all the things she learns when the man of her life replaces the Prince of her dreams.
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
Personal feelings should not enter into business-getting the job done is all that interests the boss.
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.
At the beginning of World War II, a fine young actor placed his whole career-work, money, popularity-on the altar of what he believed... Our country was at war. Very few cared what he said. He was accused, judged, vilified.
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.
I was not quite 4 when Mamma moved all of us and all our worldly goods to Hollywood.
Listening is more than just a very rewarding habit. After awhile you discover what a world of information you can gain from hearing what others say, and If you're interested, you're interesting. All the most popular people are good listeners.
What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know. I believed all those love stories-the hero was the hero-because that's what I grew up with. I loved the romance and the roses, but when it came to a more realistic life, I would back away.
One of the loveliest women I know has the most unrelieved assemblage of homely features I've ever seen.
So I'm a square! Well, at least I'm not a square peg in a round hole.
I have a full, rich respect for fashion. I love its whimsy, its humor, its charm and its rewards. I love its vagaries and its demands. I love what it does for women. But I know, with all my heart, that no woman should follow it blindly.
If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters