Top 47 Quotes & Sayings by Anna Held

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Polish entertainer Anna Held.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Helene Anna Held was a Polish-French stage performer on Broadway. While appearing in London, she was spotted by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who brought her to America as his common-law wife. From 1896 through 1910, she was one of Broadway's most celebrated leading ladies, presented in a succession of musicals as a charming, coquettish Parisian singer and comedienne, with an hourglass figure and an off-stage reputation for exotic behavior, such as bathing in 40 gallons of milk a day to maintain her complexion. Detractors implied that her fame owed more to Ziegfeld's promotional flair than to any intrinsic talent, but her audience allure was undeniable for over a decade, with several of her shows setting house attendance records for their time. Her uninhibited style also inspired the long-running series of popular revues, the Ziegfeld Follies.

Polish - Entertainer | March 19, 1872 - August 12, 1918

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The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.

Anna Held

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

Anna Held

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

Anna Held

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

Anna Held

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

Anna Held

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

Anna Held

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

Anna Held

I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

Anna Held

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

Anna Held

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Anna Held

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

Anna Held

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

Anna Held

I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me.

Anna Held

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

Anna Held

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

Anna Held

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.

Anna Held

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

Anna Held

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

Anna Held

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

Anna Held

I do not say anything from jealousy.

Anna Held

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

Anna Held

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

Anna Held

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Anna Held

Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.

Anna Held

If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

Anna Held

I don't believe in hasty marriages.

Anna Held

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

Anna Held

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Anna Held

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

Anna Held

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

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I know I am very beautiful.

Anna Held

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

Anna Held

For a married woman to flirt is a sin.

Anna Held

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

Anna Held

One does not re-light a dead cigarette.

Anna Held

People look at me and look, but I do not care.

Anna Held

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'

Anna Held

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

Anna Held

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Anna Held

At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.

Anna Held

I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.

Anna Held

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

Anna Held

It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts, but most of us prefer not to be sensible.

Anna Held

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

Anna Held

I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.

Anna Held

An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.

Anna Held

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

Anna Held