Loretta Young - biography

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

“There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.”

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

“Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Gratitude isn’t a burdening emotion.”

“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?”

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

“I’d lived by quotations, practically all my life.”

“Love isn’t something you find.  Love is something that finds you.”

“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.”

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

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

“Success can’t be forced.”

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

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

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

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

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

“A charming woman is a busy woman.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Glamour is something you can’t bear to be without once you’re used to it.”

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

“I believe you have to nurture your conscience.”

“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?”

“I don’t yearn to be a child again.”

“I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.”

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

“I was a very wanting child.”

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

“I’m not sure the public knows what it wants.”

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

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

“It’s so important to look relaxed.”

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

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

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

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

“There are no ugly ducklings.”

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

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

“What you don’t know intrigues you more than what you do know.”

Loretta Young has appeared in the following films:
The Sheik (1921)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
Fast Life (1929)
The Careless Age (1929)
The Forward Pass (1929)
The Show of Shows (1929)
Loose Ankles (1930)
The Devil to Pay! (1930)
The Man from Blankley’s (1930)
War Nurse (1930)
I Like Your Nerve (1931)
Platinum Blonde (1931)
The Ruling Voice (1931)
The Slippery Pearls (1931)
Three Girls Lost (1931)
Too Young to Marry (1931)
Big Business Girl (1931)
Taxi! (1932)
The Hatchet Man (1932)
Play-Girl (1932)
Grand Slam (1933)
Heroes for Sale (1933)
Man’s Castle (1933)
Midnight Mary (1933)
The Devil’s in Love (1933)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
Born to Be Bad (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
The House of Rothschild (1934)
Clive of India (1935)
The Call of the Wild (1935)
The Crusades (1935)
Ladies in Love (1936)
Private Number (1936)
Ramona (1936)
Café Metropole (1937)
Love Is News (1937)
Love Under Fire (1937)
Second Honeymoon (1937)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
Kentucky (1938)
Suez (1938)
Three Blind Mice (1938)
Eternally Yours (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Bedtime Story (1941)
The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
The Men in Her Life (1941)
China (1943)
And Now Tomorrow (1944)
Ladies Courageous (1944)
Along Came Jones (1945)
The Stranger (1946)
The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
The Farmer’s Daughter (1947)
The Perfect Marriage (1947)
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
The Accused (1949)
Key to the City (1950)
Half Angel (1951)