Quotes from Anna Held

If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

For a married woman to flirt is a sin.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30 or work after she is 30 or get married.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.