Hattie McDaniel quotes

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards, for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble; and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Art #Kindness #Humble

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Choices #Week #Servant

A woman's gifts will make room for her.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Rooms

I did my best, and God did the rest.
-- Hattie McDaniel

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Hollywood #Pay #Sincerity

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Passion #Unique #Actors

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Culinary #Dumplings #Chickens

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Married #Forget #Enough

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Earth #Visitors #Feels

Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Balance #Bob #Red

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Fighting #Evil

That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Powerful #Feet #Wind

Why should I complain about making $7,000 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Complaining #Maids #Week

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Maids #Week

I'd rather play a maid than be one.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Play #Maids

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Mother #Knives #Littles

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Book #Character #Breathing

When I was 8 years old, I knew what I was going to be—an actress.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Years #Actresses

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Letting Go #Men #Bank Accounts

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Men #Race #Action

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Missing #Thrill

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Long #Looks #Honest

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Hollywood #World #Demand

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Grateful #Desire #Selfishness

I've played everything but a harp.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Harps

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Race #Credit #Motion Pictures

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Black #Federal Reserve #Persons

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Fun #Littles #Tension

I always have the best of everything.
-- Hattie McDaniel