Rosalind Russell quotes
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“Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.”
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“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.”
-- Rosalind RussellSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.”
-- Rosalind RussellSource : "Fictional character: Mame Dennis". "Auntie Mame", www.imdb.com. 1958.
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“Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.”
-- Rosalind RussellSource : "Life is a Banquet". Book by Rosalind Russell, 1977.
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“Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.”
-- Rosalind RussellSource : 1957 In the NewYork HeraldTribune,11Apr.
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“Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.”
-- Rosalind RussellSource : "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by John Walker (p. 383), 2001.
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“Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.”
-- Rosalind RussellSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“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 RussellSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.”
-- Rosalind RussellSource : Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”
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“Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.”
-- Rosalind RussellSource : Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”
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“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.”
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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.”
-- Rosalind RussellSource : Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”
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“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 RussellSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?”
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“The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.”
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“I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.”
-- Rosalind RussellSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.”
-- Rosalind Russell
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