Explore Quotes by Shirley Temple

I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.

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

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.

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.

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.

I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.

Many people consider me an old friend.

Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.

I've always been bossy.

I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working.

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 had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world.

I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Good luck needs no explanation.