My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.

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.

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

I've played everything but a harp.

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

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!

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

I always have the best of everything.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.