Quotes from Loretta Young


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Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.


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


I was a very wanting child.


I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.


I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.


I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.


I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.


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!


A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.


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


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?


As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.


A charming woman is a busy woman.


I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.


Success can't be forced.


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.


If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.


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


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


The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.