I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first. Shirley Temple Read Quote
There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world. Shirley Temple Read Quote
At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won’t happen again. Shirley Temple Read Quote
I’ve led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother – which is a career – and international relations. I’m proud of my career, the first one, and I’m proud of the other two, too. Shirley Temple Read Quote
My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover. Shirley Temple Read Quote
By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention. Shirley Temple Read Quote
Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I’m still a former child. Shirley Temple Read Quote
I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work. Shirley Temple Read Quote
I did an imitation of him to make the crew laugh. To my shock, there was Cary Grant behind me. He got very angry. I was sent all the way from RKO to David Selznick’s office and was told not to do it anymore. I thought to myself, ‘I must have been pretty good to make him that angry.’ Shirley Temple Read Quote
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. Shirley Temple Read Quote
