Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Rosalind Russell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Rosalind Russell.

Last updated on April 22, 2025.

Catherine Rosalind Russell was an American actress, comedienne, screenwriter, and singer, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), opposite Cary Grant, as well as for her portrayals of Mame Dennis in Auntie Mame (1958) and Rose in Gypsy (1962). A noted comedienne, she won all five Golden Globes for which she was nominated. Russell won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1953 for her portrayal of Ruth in the Broadway show Wonderful Town. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress four times during her career.

American - Actress | June 4, 1907 - November 28, 1976

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Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Rosalind Russell

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Rosalind Russell

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Rosalind Russell

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Rosalind Russell

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.

Rosalind Russell

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Rosalind Russell

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Rosalind Russell

It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

Rosalind Russell

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

Rosalind Russell

Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

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The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.

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I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

Rosalind Russell

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

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It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.

Rosalind Russell

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

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My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

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When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Rosalind Russell

In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife.

Rosalind Russell