Shirley Temple

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

My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.