"Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle." — Shirley Temple

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.

If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working.

I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior's picture, 'married' or 'engaged.' I had marriage on the brain.

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.'

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.

There's nothing like real love. Nothing.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

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Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.