Doris Day
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Biography
Doris Day was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned nearly 50 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s and 1950s, with a parallel career as a leading actress in Hollywood films, where she became one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1960s.
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."
"I’ve been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they’d come back up? I’ve always been like that. I’ve always said, "No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.""
"Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay."
"Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden."
"Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit."
"If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers."
"If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers."
"Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful."
"I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source."
"If it's true that men are such beasts this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers."
"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!"
"It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage."
"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it."
"When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked 'Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.'"
"I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven."
"I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy."