Top 67 Quotes & Sayings by Doris Day

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky.

If I'd find a dog, I'd try to find the owner, of course, but it was mine! I just can't live without them; I love them so much. I have cats, too. People call me all the time and say, 'We know of a couple of cats people don't care for,' and I say, 'Bring them!' That's it - two words. I'm always open for that.

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Sometimes I think I should have stayed longer and I should have done more films.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked 'Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.'

I don't know if I want to get married again.

I don't even like parties.

I've just always loved animals.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

I like to sing love songs.

I never retired.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

I rented a place that I could have dogs - not in my house. I rented a big place. And I was able to have the SPCA every end of the week bring many, many dogs to me. They all were in nice places, clean, everything was fine. I took good care of them. And so many people called.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

I like Michael Buble.

I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.

The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.

If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.

Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?

If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?

I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.

I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.

I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much.

When I see Liz Taylor with those Harry Winston boulders hanging from her neck I get nauseated. Not figuratively, but nauseated! All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.

It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.

I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.

I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.

No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.

For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.

if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.

The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.

in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!

If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.

You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.