Jean Arthur Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.”
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“I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.”
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“I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.”
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“If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular.”
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“It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen.”
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“I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.”
-- Jean Arthur
