Shirley Temple Quotes

We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.

If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.

Don't forget to tell your favorite people that you love them.

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.

Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.

I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.

Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.

[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.

There’s nothing like real love. Nothing.

One famous movie executive who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer not an exhibitor'.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

I've always been bossy.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.

Many people consider me an old friend.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.

One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.

Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the mentalities of six-year-olds, and my feeling is that they should not see such pictures, either.

Movies mirror the times, they do not create them.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

You've got to S-M-I-L-E To be H-A-Double-P-Y

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.

We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought.

My Chicken can do a special trick! "And what is that?" She can lay an egg! "And what's so special about THAT?!" Well, Can YOU lay an egg?

Good luck needs no explanation.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first.

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.