Joan Fontaine Quotes

United States, Actress
October 22, 1917 – December, 15, 2013.

Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an American actress born in Japan who was best known for her starring roles in cinema during the Classical Hollywood era. Fontaine appeared in more than 45 feature films in a career that spanned five decades. She was the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland.

Goodness knows, I tried. But I think it's virtually impossible for the right kind of man to be married to a movie star.

Joan Fontaine
- Movie
- Star
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

Joan Fontaine
- Marriage
- Bird

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

Joan Fontaine
- Hope
- Age
- Die
[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

Joan Fontaine
- Children
- Giving
- Enemy
One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

Joan Fontaine
- Men
- Sex
- Instinct
The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

Joan Fontaine
- Teacher
- Audience
- Actors
It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

Joan Fontaine
- World
- Thinking
- Shame
If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

Joan Fontaine

My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.

Joan Fontaine
- Children
- Friends
- Nature
I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

Joan Fontaine
- Firsts
- Married
- Beats
It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.

Joan Fontaine
- Career
I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

Joan Fontaine
- Done
You know, I've had a helluva life.

Joan Fontaine
- Knows
The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.

Joan Fontaine
- Men
- Important
- Dog

That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.

Joan Fontaine
- Family
- Friends