Doris Day Quotes

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I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.

Doris Day
The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my 'image', which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.

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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

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I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.

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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."

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I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country.... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country.... I love this country so much.

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If you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.

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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

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In the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

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When you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent, devoted companionship of a dog that you get from no other source.

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It has been said that the body is like an automobile — it's yours, but it isn't you.

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I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.

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