Laraine Day famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better!
-- Laraine Day

#Mgm
MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.
-- Laraine Day

#Roles #Break #Casts
When youâ€™re a housekeeperâ€™s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.
-- Laraine Day

#Daughter #Doors #Half
A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.
-- Laraine Day

#Years #Birth #Source
(On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.
-- Laraine Day

#Giving #Dry #Want
Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in The Bad Man and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's.
-- Laraine Day

#Christian #Men #People
I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award
-- Laraine Day

#Winning #Awards #Academy Awards
When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.
-- Laraine Day

#Daughter #Doors #Half
[On her work in "Keep Your Powder Dry"] I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.
-- Laraine Day

#Giving #Dry #Want

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better!

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