Quotes By Anna Held

I know I am very beautiful.

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

People look at me and look, but I do not care.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.

At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.

One does not re-light a dead cigarette.

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.