Hattie McDaniel Quotes
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Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
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Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.
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Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.
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As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
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You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.
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What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait
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I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.
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The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman
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The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests. This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.
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We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
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I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.
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Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
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I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry.
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That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.
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I did my best, and God did the rest.
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When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
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A woman's gifts will make room for her.
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I've played everything but a harp.
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In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book
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Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
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My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful
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I'm letting no man handle my bank account.
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I always have the best of everything.
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When I was 8 years old, I knew what I was going to be—an actress.
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It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen
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I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.
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Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.
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Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had
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I'd rather play a maid than be one.
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