Top 50 Quotes by Shirley Temple

I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad.

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.

Good luck needs no explanation.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

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

When I saw work shoes, I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child.

I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work.

There's nothing like real love. Nothing.

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.

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