Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Arthur

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Jean Arthur.
Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur was an American Broadway and film actress whose career began in silent films in the early 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s.

I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.
I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.
I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.
I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.
It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen.
If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular. — © Jean Arthur
If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular.
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