Paulette Goddard Quotations

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

I love doing TV. It's such a breakneck pace, you know. It's kiss and go with your leading man. You meet them in the morning and go right into a clinch. The filming is over before you know their last names.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home.

He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who donshis neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous.

I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.