Laraine Day quotes:

(On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.

My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.

I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in The Bad Man and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's.

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!

A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better!