Laraine Day Quotes & Sayings

M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures. — Laraine Day

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award. — Laraine Day

(On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM. — Laraine Day

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears. — Laraine Day

A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger. — Laraine Day

I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people. — Laraine Day

I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better! — Laraine Day

I am very much a Republican. — Laraine Day

Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not. — Laraine Day

Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan. — Laraine Day

When you're a housekeeper's daughter, you see the world through a half-open door. — Laraine Day

My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first. — Laraine Day

Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in The Bad Man and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's. — Laraine Day