American - Actress | April 23, 1928 - February 10, 2014
Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.
Shirley Temple
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If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working.
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I did an imitation of him to make the crew laugh. To my shock, there was Cary Grant behind me. He got very angry. I was sent all the way from RKO to David Selznick's office and was told not to do it anymore. I thought to myself, 'I must have been pretty good to make him that angry.'
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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.
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Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.
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When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
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I've always been bossy.
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I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
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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.
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Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
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Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.
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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.
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