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It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.
— Rosalind Russell
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Rosalind Russell
actor, film actor, singer, character actor, model, television actor, screenwriter, stage actor, comedian
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1907 – 1976
Catherine Rosalind Russell was an American actress, model, comedian, screenwriter, and singer, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), opposite Cary Grant, as well as for her role of catty Sylvia Fowler in George Cukor's The Women (1939), opposite Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, and for her portrayals of Mame Dennis in the 1956 stage and 1958 film adaptations of Auntie Mame, and Rose in Gypsy (1962). A noted comedienne, she received various accolades, including five Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. Russell has been honored with a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1973 and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1975.
All Quotes by Rosalind Russell
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Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
— Rosalind Russell
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Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
— Rosalind Russell
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Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
— Rosalind Russell
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Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
— Rosalind Russell
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At MGM there was a first wave of top stars, and a second wave to replace them in case they got difficult. I was in the second line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.
— Rosalind Russell
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Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
— Rosalind Russell