Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple Blackwas an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and public servant, most famous as Hollywood's number one box-office star from 1935 to 1938. As an adult, she entered politics and became a diplomat, as a United States Ambassador to Ghana and later to Czechoslovakia, and as Chief of Protocol of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth23 April 1928
CountryUnited States of America
real believe long-ago
Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.
country august hands
I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first.
trying helping scream
If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.
I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.
public-service available
I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.
world should position
There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.
believe men years
Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the mentalities of six-year-olds, and my feeling is that they should not see such pictures, either.
real real-love
There’s nothing like real love. Nothing.
mother years wife
We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.
cheer-up
You've got to S-M-I-L-E To be H-A-Double-P-Y
mirrors
Movies mirror the times, they do not create them.
opportunity faces unexpected
Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.
educational done world
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
team-building temples
When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.