Hattie McDaniel Quotes

• As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I’ll take roast chicken and dumplings.

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• You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

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• When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

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• What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

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• We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

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• The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.

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• That’s a powerful lucky rabbit’s foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.

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• Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

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• Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I’ve ever had.

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• My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

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• It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.

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• In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

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• I’m letting no man handle my bank account.

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• I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

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• I don’t belong on this earth. I always feel out of place – like a visitor.

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• I did my best, and God did the rest.

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• I am loathe to get married again. I’ve been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

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• I always have the best of everything.

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• Faith is the black person’s federal reserve system.

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• Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

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Hattie McDaniel (22)

Birth:	10th June, 1895
Death:	26th October, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Hattie McDaniel was born in Wichita, Kansas, USA. She was an American actress and comedian. She is best known for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first African American to win an Academy Award. She was a professional singer-songwriter, radio performer and television star. She was the first black woman to sing on the radio in the USA. She appeared in over 300 films. Her role in several films include: Judge Priest, Lost in the Stratosphere, The Little Colonel, Alice Adams, The First Baby, Gentle Julia, The Crime Nobody Saw, Saratoga, True Confession, The Mad Miss Manton, Zenobia, The Male Animal, Janie, Margie, Mickey, and The Big Wheel. She was the first black Oscar winner honored with a US postage stamp.

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