Top 68 Quotes & Sayings by Loretta Young

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Loretta Young.

Last updated on April 16, 2025.

Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in Come to the Stable (1949). Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards, and was re-run successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. In the 1980s, Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe for her role in Christmas Eve in 1986.

American - Actress | January 6, 1913 - August 12, 2000

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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?

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

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I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

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

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

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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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

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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.

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

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A charming woman is a busy woman.

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

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

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

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It's so important to look relaxed.

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Success can't be forced.

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

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

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I don't yearn to be a child again.

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

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

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

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Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

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I was a very wanting child.

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There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

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

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

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

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

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Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

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

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

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There are no ugly ducklings.

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

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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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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