Jeanette MacDonald Quotes

“I`ve been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.”

can`t believe how blessed I am! I`m married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I`m deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!”

I`m sure that people must say about me, on the screen, `Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?”

I must have had rocks in my head.”

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn`t in the cards, I guess.”

“I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.”

I`ve been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

(when asked by friend Samuel Griffin in the 1950s why she married Gene Raymond instead of Nelson Eddy) I must have had rocks in my head.

(1943) I can`t believe how blessed I am! I`m married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I`m deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!