Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Eve Arden

The better the teacher, the better the future of America.

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.

My friends will tell you that I'm a very mild person.

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.

I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.

I may not like the material, but I'm still a trouper.

I've worked with a lot of great, glamorous girls in movies and the theater. They would always give their last ounce to get where they wanted to be.

If I'm in a serious play, I often think to myself, 'I could make that line funny.'

Our kids seldom even get to see a movie. When we go to a movie, it's an event - and we make it an event.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

I love making people laugh.

I couldn't stand seeing myself on the screen.

I can't seem to say, 'You great big wonderful man, you,' without hamming it up somehow.

In a sense, children who live on a farm become sophisticated, too - but about more important things.

Everyone from Pullman porters to hostesses at swank New York parties will tell me they always watch 'Miss Brooks' on Friday night.

Stole my first name from 'Evening in Paris' and the second from Elizabeth Arden.

As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.

'Widow' is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.

In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.

So many people accept the negative. They are constantly blinded by that negative thing.

I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.

None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.

Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.

I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.