Rosalind Russell Quotes

• Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

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• Flops are a part of life’s menu and I’ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

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• A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

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• I’ll match my flops with anybody’s but I wouldn’t have missed ’em.

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• Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

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• Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

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• Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

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• Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.

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Rosalind Russell (8)

Birth:	4th June, 1907
Death:	28th November, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Rosalind Russell was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame.

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