Doris Day Quotes: Sunshine, Wisdom & Inspiration
Discover heartwarming and inspiring Doris Day quotes. Explore the timeless wisdom and sunny outlook of the beloved actress and singer in this collection.
Doris Day
The happiest times of my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
Gratitude is wealth. Complaining is poverty.
I like joy, I want to be happy, I want to have fun, I want to wear nice clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that’s all I want. I like to be happy and I want to make other people happy.
[On recording “Secret Love” for the film Hot as Pepper (1953)]: When I first heard “Secret Love” I almost fainted. It was so beautiful. When I finally got to pre-record, Ray Heindorf, the musical director at Warner, said he would pick up the musicians around 12:30 so they could rehearse. That morning I did my vocal warm-up with him. When I got there, I sang the song with the orchestra for the first time. When I was finished, Ray called me into the sound booth, grinning from ear to ear, and said, “That’s it. You’ll never do it better.” That was the first and only take we did.
[Recalling his only pleasant memories of Julie (1956)] Almost all the scenes in “Julie” were filmed on location in Carmel, which is a lovely town a little south of San Francisco. My screen partner was Louis Jourdan, whom I liked very much. A kind man, very gentle, very interested in the people around him. We had a good rapport and I found talking to him a joy . . . We would take long walks on the beautiful Carmel beach, talking for hours!
If there is a heaven I’m sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a lovely person.
[On Ronald Reagan] Ronnie is really the only man I’ve ever met who loved to dance.
[On Cary Grant] A completely private person, totally reserved, practically impossible to get to.
The succession of musicals, plus the observation of Oscar Levant, contributed to the promotion of my image as a virgin. In fact, this is something that baffles me, since there was never any intention on my part, either in acting or in private life, to create anything of the sort.
[During President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign] I’m rooting for him every step of the way.
You don’t really know a person until you live with them, not just sleep with them.
Sex is not enough to sustain a marriage. I have a terrible reputation as America’s virgin, and all that, so I’m afraid it will shock some people to tell me this, but I firmly believe that two people should not get married until they have lived together. Young people have a right. What a tragedy it is for a couple to get married, have a child, and in the process discover that they are not right for each other!
If I had lived with Al Jorden for a few weeks, God knows I never would have married him. Nor did I marry George Weidler. But I was too young and too inexperienced to understand any of that.
When I see Liz Taylor with those boulders hanging around her neck I get sick. Not figuratively, but sick! All I can think of is how many dog shelters diamonds could be bought.
[Rejecting allegations that she “stole” husband Martin Melcher from his ex-wife, singer Patty Andrews] You don’t leave a good marriage for someone else.
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