Deborah Kerr Quotes

"I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes."
-Deborah Kerr

"I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency."
-Deborah Kerr

"[Autobiographies] are all the same -- it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that."
-Deborah Kerr

"Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind."
-Deborah Kerr

"Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball?"
-Deborah Kerr

"I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderson didn't know that, but he wrote Laura Reynolds and Laura Reynolds happened to be me. It was the coming together of a part and an actress - the same attitude to life, a certain shyness in life, a deep compassion for people who are being persecuted for anything."
-Deborah Kerr

"I came over here (Hollywood) to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative."
-Deborah Kerr

"They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to plan early."
-Deborah Kerr