Joan Fontaine Quotes

• I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

  Joan Fontaine

  Age, Peter, Stage

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

  Joan Fontaine

  Thinking, Blue, World

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• I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

  Joan Fontaine

  Olivia, Oscars, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

  Joan Fontaine

  Teacher, Directors, Degrees

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• The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.

  Joan Fontaine

  Dog, Sex, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

  Joan Fontaine

  Race, Acting, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

  Joan Fontaine

  Sex, Men, Instinct

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• You know, I've had a helluva life.

  Joan Fontaine

  Knows

  "Joan Fontaine, Oscar-winning actor, dies at 96", www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2013.

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• Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

  Joan Fontaine

  Bird, Dodo Bird, Institutions

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.

  Joan Fontaine

  Children, Peculiar, My Sister

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

  Joan Fontaine

  Hobbies, Marrying, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

  Joan Fontaine

  Daughter, Children, Giving

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