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Jean Kerr
13 quotes
“Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mary, Mary, Act II (1961)
“The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time magazine (April 14, 1961)
“You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will read anything rather than work.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Children are different—mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Children Really are Not People," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Saturday Evening Post, 27 July 1957
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Children Really are Not People," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Saturday Evening Post, 27 July 1957
“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself—like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source