Best quotes by Dorothy Malone

Dorothy Malone

American actress

Dorothy Malone (born Mary Dorothy Maloney; January 29, 1924 – January 19, 2018) was an American actress. Her film career began in 1943, and in her early years, she played small roles, mainly in B-movies, but an exception is The Big Sleep (1946). After a decade, she changed her image, particularly after her role in Written on the Wind (1956), for which she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Her career reached its peak by the beginning of the 1960s, and she achieved later success with her television role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place (1964–1968). Less active in her later years, Malone's last screen appearance was in Basic Instinct in 1992.

Malone died on January 19, 2018. She had been one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

All quotes by Dorothy Malone:

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

I never turned down a mother role.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

Sinatra asked me out.

I had had no art training.

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

Sirk was every womans dream of a director.

Television wasn't prestigious.