If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby. Joan Fontaine More Quotes by Joan Fontaine More Quotes From Joan Fontaine I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan. Joan Fontaine peter stage age I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it! Joan Fontaine olivia oscars firsts It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame. Joan Fontaine blue world thinking The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent. Joan Fontaine degrees teacher directors One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them. Joan Fontaine instinct men sex The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance. Joan Fontaine dog men sex My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all. Joan Fontaine my-sister peculiar children Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird. Joan Fontaine dodo-bird institutions bird You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things. Joan Fontaine acting done race [On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them? Joan Fontaine daughter giving children You know, I've had a helluva life. Joan Fontaine knows It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium. Joan Fontaine your career better opera Goodness knows, I tried. But I think it's virtually impossible for the right kind of man to be married to a movie star. Joan Fontaine think man goodness impossible That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown. Joan Fontaine crown head friends family I regret that I remember not one act of kindness from her all through my childhood. Joan Fontaine
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