Loretta Young quotes:

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

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

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

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

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?

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

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

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.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

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

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

There are no ugly ducklings.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

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.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

A charming woman is a busy woman.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

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

Success can't be forced.

It's so important to look relaxed.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

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

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

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

I was a very wanting child.

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

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

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

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

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

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

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

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

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

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

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

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

Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.

A beguiling lady doesn't take after the swarm. She is herself.

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

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!

Every day, no matter what I'm doing, I say, 'Lord, I'll do the best I can, and You do the rest.

Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else.

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.

I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

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?

I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

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 way.

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

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

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.

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

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

We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.