Ida Lupino Quotes

"My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England - I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers."

"I`d love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it`s almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power...I wouldn`t hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right."

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn`t very feminine.

I didn`t see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

As for Errol being a homosexual - well, I have nothing against those gentlemen, but nothing is farther from the truth.

I can assure you that he was never a Nazi. We both hated Nazis!

It is fascinating to me that a person`s real private life, they never reall know about it. What they don`t know, they make up. But what can they sa about me when I have gone? They won`t have anything left. They`ve made up so many lies about me when I`m alive.

That`s what I call people who smile and are really knifing another badly. I think I`ll throw all the smilers with knives into my empty pool and cement it over!

I`m mad they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

I am a fan. Not because she is a great actress, but because she has dared the wolves and kept her splendid isolation.

I never expect anything to last... neither success nor love... I can`t be hurt.