| Q U O T E S |
| "I'm going to New York to study art" -Dorothy 1924 |
| "I remember the day Dorothy Sebastian arrived on the set wearing a ring in which was set a diamond seemingly only slightly smaller than a goose egg. "'He asked me to marry him,' Dorothy explained before any questions could be posed. "'Will you?' I asked. "'Hell, no!' she laughed and then recounted how her beau had given it to her the previous evening, pressing his case and adding rather gratuitously that even if Dorothy rejected him she need not return the ring. Gazing appreciatively at the glittering stone, she murmured warmly, 'You can bet your sweet ass I won't.'" -Tim McCoy in TIM McCOY REMEMBERS THE WEST |
| "When Greta dropped in, my chairs hadn't arrived and so we ate our luncheon - baked beans and Boston brown bread - sitting on the floor. Greta seemed to enjoy the grand confusion. It was really a lark for her, as she enjoys herself most when she can romp about and not have to give a thought to how she looks." -Dorothy on Greta Garbo's visit to her new house |
| "I don't have to think twice, Florence Nightingale! My grandfather and grandmother were missionaries, and to them Miss Nightingale was a model for womankind. I was brought up on stories of her bravery and vision. When I ever think of a famous woman, I see her name before me." -Dorothy 1930 |
| "If I had known three years ago what I know now, I probably would be back in Birmingham. I didn't know then that beginners were supposed to be afraid of producers, so I talked right up to everyone. And I still do. I started it and can't stop it now." -Dorothy 1927 |
| "Everyone trembled when Garbo first came on the lot, but I decided that I would just be myself; Greta must be only human and that she probably disliked all the kowtowing that greeted her from all sides. So when our director introduced us, I said 'Hello' casually. Greta inquired, "How do you feel?" "Tired" I answered. "I do too" said Greta, "I'm glad you are tired. I like tired people." -Dorothy on her first meeting with Greta Garbo |
| "It's just a habit with me I guess." -Dorothy on crying during her wedding to Bill Boyd 12-19-30 |
| "I may as well be buried back here, where there isn't a male customer in a carload." -Dorothy in Our Blushing Brides |
| When I was 15 I thought boys were bores. I tried to be very highbrow and read books I couldn't understand. An old bachlor friend of the family was the only one who pretended to take me seriously, and I'm sure he deserved a medal when I remember what a pest I must have been. I used to tell my schoolmates that my best beau was a 'Man Who Understood Me'" - Dorothy 1928, on her first crush |
| "I don't want to get married. Why spoil a good friend by making a bad husband out of him?" -Dorothy 1926 |
| I have very few intimate friends - and Alice Terry is my best one. She has taught me all about pictures, and her friendship means everything to me. One can't have many friends like Alice." -Dorothy 1926 |
| I absolutely refuse to be disappointed in anything. It hurts too much. Instead I get prepared ahead of time and so am ready to meet whatever comes" -Dorothy 1926 |
| "Money is the doggonedest stuff! In the Wayburn show I didn't get much. In the White show I got more. And of course, pictures are even better. But no matter how much you make, it just goes the same. But we're only here temporarily, so why spend life makin' the old check book balance? - Dorothy on money |
| "Oh why won't they let me be a good girl once in a while?" -Dorothy after being cast as 'heavies' in her early films |
| "The goofier the better" -Dorothy 1926 on the kind of comedies she liked to act in. |
| You see, on the screen I go sort of sleepy looking and blah, and they call that 'sex appeal' and give me these terrible heavies to do." -Dorothy 1926 |
| "I'll dare any of these old codgers to try and find out whether I've got a bathing suit underneath my balloon pants!" -Dorothy on a 1925 Venice Beach rule saying women could not wear white pants without a bathing suit underneath. |
| "She was a darling girl from the South, a darling girl..." -Louise Brooks on Dorothy |
| "Not that I intend to blow safes, become a pickpocket, steal other wives husbands or anything like that". - Dorothy 1926 on her appreciation for the experience playing vamps (but she would have preferred some "nice sweet girl" parts.) |
| I'll be a success on the screen if I have to wait until I play dear, old mother roles." - Dorothy 1928 |
- Tom Mix 1929 |
| "A girl needs more and ermine coat to make her happy" - Dorothy after her breakup with Clarence Brown |