10 Motivational Claudette Colbert Quotes For Success

Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American stage and film actress. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to motion pictures with the advent of Talking pictures. Initially associated with Paramount Pictures, she gradually shifted to working as a freelance actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in It Happened One Night (1934), and received two other Academy Award nominations. Colbert was becoming one of the industry’s best-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s and, in 1938 and 1942, the highest-paid star. For her television work in The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987), she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy Award nomination. In 1999, the American Film Institute posthumously voted Claudette Colbert the 12th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema. I hope you like these Claudette Colbert quotes.

10 Claudette Colbert Quotes

1. “It took me years to figure out that you don’t fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.”
2. “Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy—the mother.”
3. “It matters more what’s in a woman’s face than what’s on it.”
4. “I know what’s best for me, after all, I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.”
5. “Men don’t get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.”

6. “If I couldn’t laugh, I’d rather die.”

7. “I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy – period.”
8. “It took me years to figure out that you don’t fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.”
9. “I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can’t think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.”
10. “Audiences always sound like they’re glad to see me, and I’m damned glad to see them.”