9 Quotes & Sayings By Shirley Temple Black

Shirley Temple Black was an American film actress and singer. She began her career at age three starring in films as a child performer. In 1938, she became the youngest person to receive an Academy Award for best actress for her performance in Babes in Arms. At age fourteen, she starred in another Disney film, Bright Eyes Read more

She continued her career with a series of hit films throughout the 1940s and 1950s, including National Velvet (1944), Curly Top (1947), and Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1948). She continued acting into adulthood and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1975, she published her autobiography Child Star.

Her father, George Black, was a Scottish immigrant who worked as a coal miner and then as a laborer for Southern Pacific Railroad. Her mother, Gertrude Amelia "Trudy" Temple, was from Tennessee; the family moved to California when Shirley Temple was two years old.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six....
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple Black
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You've got to S-M-I-L-ETo be H-A-Double-P-Y Shirley Temple Black
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Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle. Shirley Temple Black
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Good luck needs no explanation. Shirley Temple Black
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When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was.... I've been getting younger ever since. Shirley Temple Black
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Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported insulated and isolated from the risks of life- and if we fall our government stands ready with Band-Aids of every size. Shirley Temple Black
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One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on. Shirley Temple Black
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Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways-in science in politics in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives entwining our past and our future ... a particularly rewarding aspect of life itself. Shirley Temple Black