Doris Day Quotes
The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
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In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.
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My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.
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Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.
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The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.
