15 Quotes & Sayings By Doris Day

Doris Day began her career as a singer, recording several unsuccessful singles in the mid-1940s that were not picked up for release. She then turned to acting, first appearing in minor roles in films. By the early 1950s, Day had signed with Columbia Records and had made her first solo album, Doris Day Sings Best of the Best. It included eight songs from the film versions of the popular musicals "Pillow Talk" (1959), "Love Me or Leave Me" (1961), and "Pillow Talk" (1959) as well as two new songs Read more

The album was an immediate success, reaching number three on the Billboard pop albums chart. Her second album for Columbia, Doris Day Sings Songs from Funny Girl (1956), became an even bigger success after it was reissued in 1956, hitting number two on the chart. Her third album for Columbia, Doris Day's Biggest Hits (1958), topped the charts and included her biggest hit single ever, "Secret Love".

The song went to number one on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart for ten weeks and stayed there for twenty-one weeks total.

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Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful. Doris Day
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it. Doris Day
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I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source. Doris Day
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. Doris Day
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If it's true that men are such beasts this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. Doris Day
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it! Doris Day
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When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked 'Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.' Doris Day
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. Doris Day
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I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. Doris Day
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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. Doris Day
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It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage. Doris Day
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Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. Doris Day
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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. Doris Day
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I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy. Doris Day