Dorothy Quotes

"I`d like to think every director I`ve worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did."

On Dorothy Dandridge: "...You have to find a way to be sad on every day, in every scene, in every moment. And always try to hide the sadness. And (then) you`ll get the essence of who she was."

This moment is so much bigger than me, This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll... It`s for the women that stand beside me, Jada Pinkett Smith, Angela Bassett, Vivica A. Fox... and it`s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance, because the door tonight has been opened. - During her Oscar acceptance speech.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

I asked the producer who else is doing the show. And he replied: `Dorothy Paul, and, of course, McLean.` I said: `Shirley?` And he said: `No '“ Una!`.

(on Dorothy Lamour) Dottie was fearless. She stands there before the camera and ad libs with Bing Crosby and me, fully knowing the way the script`s written, she`ll come up second or third best.

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

Look at the names in the Jackie Robinson Wing, ... Steve Young, Dorothy Hamill. The Jackie Robinson Wing. Goodness gracious . . .That`s top shelf.

Oh, Errol Flynn, I`ve never had the yen. Victor Mature? Don`t know him well but believe Dorothy Parker, a good friend of mine, summed it up well when she said, "He acts as though his body has gone to his head!" My favorite actor of course is Orson Welles. He`s wonderful, magnificent, a darling, and I adore him. I like Humphrey Bogart, too. He`s just as nice as he can be and looks just the same all the time. Ingrid Bergman? She`s just as beautiful and natural off the screen as she is on and is admired by everyone. But one of the nicest people in Hollywood is William Faulkner, who I had known in Mississippi when I was getting my Masters Degree in Philosophy at the University there."