Shirley Temple was a celebrated actress and public figure who was born on April 23, 1928.
She was an American singer, diplomat, dancer, and actress. Temple has been the United States ambassador to Ghana.
She was often known as the little girl who became a child star because of her early start in her career, but this little girl touched heights during her lifetime. This child star has also served as the Chief of Protocol of the United States.
Shirley Temple Quotes On Leadership
Leadership comes with integrity, and these quotes will make you understand that.
"The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies."
"Shirley Temple doesn't hurt Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple helps Shirley Temple Black. She is thought of as a friend - which I am!"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I work a seventeen-hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy."
“On the good ship lollipop its a sweet trip to the candy shop Where bon-bon’s play, On the sunny beach of peppermint bay Lemonade stands, Everywhere Crackerjack bands, Fill the air, and there you are, Happy landings on a chocolate bar.
See the sugar bowl Do a tootsie roll in a big bad devils food cake If you eat too much, oh, oh, you’ll awake, With a tummy ache.”
"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 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."
"When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it off by saying, 'Your work makes them happy.' She never let it go to my head."
"We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought."
"I remember telling President Carter on his first night, when I was escorting people around, that I was interested in continuing public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it?"
"I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world."
"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."
"Complete peace in all countries. I think perhaps that's not in our makeup to do this although we can pray for it and work for it. But I think that the building blocks of peace are moving into shape, and I think that the world is going to be a better place."
"Many people consider me an old friend."
"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."
“Some people liked Rudolph Valentino. I liked Rin Tin Tin.”
“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?”
“I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.”
“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.”
Shirley Temple Quotes On Music And Dance
Dance and music are like therapy to feel relaxed and these quotes show how important it is in our life.
"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."
"Movies mirror the times, they do not create them."
Shirley Temple Quotes On Life
Read these Shirley Temple quotes to know her thoughts on little pie wagon, human adoration, and friends.
“Don’t forget to tell your favorite people that you love them.”
“Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don’t be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.”
“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 ran for Congress, just once.”
“I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. ”
“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 liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.”
“When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I’ve been getting younger ever since.”
“In the world of movie personalities, the distance between popularity and politics is short.”
“You’ve got to S-M-I-L-E To be H-A-Double-P-Y”
“Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.”
“I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.”
“There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.”
“There’s nothing like real love. Nothing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Good luck needs no explanation.”
“Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.”
“Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.”
“If you hear someone scream, you shouldn’t close the drapes. You should help. You’ve got to try.”
“I’ve been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.”
“Movies mirror the times, they do not create them.”
“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.”
“Many people consider me an old friend.”
“Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.”
“I work a seventeen-hour day, and I’m personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.”
“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.”
“I had a very close family and I couldn’t get away with anything.”
“We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought.”
“Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.”
“By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.”
“Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.”
“My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.”
“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’.”
“Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.”
“Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.”
“Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.”
“I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!”
“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 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.”
“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.”
