Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.
I ran for Congress, just once.
Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.
Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.
I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman.
When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
We would have to invent the U.N. If we did not have it, which is not an original thought.
I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.
I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.
There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
There's nothing like real love. Nothing.
If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working.
My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.
