Deborah Kerr Quotes

15 quotes in 205 categories

• For Karen Holmes (in From Here to Eternity), I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair…
• All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for…
• Pink champagne -- that's the kind of life we've both been used to. It might be a little difficult to -- do you like beer?
• The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.
• I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.
• When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.
• I don’t think anyone knew I could act until I put on a bathing suit.
• Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
• One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.
• If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.
• I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.
• I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy…
• I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.
• I came over here (Hollywood) to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative.
• A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

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