5 Quotes by Jean Arthur

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    I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant’s chest.

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    I am not an adult, that’s my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.

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    If people don’t like your work, all the still pictures in the world can’t help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular.

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    It’s a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen.

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    I guess I became an actress because I didn’t want to be myself.

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