Shirley Temple

thumb|Shirley Temple in 1990 Shirley Jane Temple (April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014), later known as Shirley Temple Black, was a child actress who appeared in over 40 films from 1932; the majority being released before she reached adolescence. She became a diplomat and United States ambassador as an adult. Quotes 1975 I think we all learn from the past. I just feel we shouldn't live there. We shouldn't live in the past. I live for today, and to me, the most important moment is now. Quoted in: "Madam Ambassador - Sixty Minutes" CBS, 1975. 1979 Some of you may recollect a little girl with clean and curled hair, starched skirts, ruffles, and bows. That perception was wrong. The reality was a kid in blue jeans and sentimental sneakers, dirty hands, dirty face, usually climbing a tree...I never even aspired to be an actress. Even when I was very young, I had three aspirations: to be a surgeon, or an FBI agent, or a pie salesman...President Roosevelt patted and squeezed me in 1938. Truman, Eisenhower, and Nixon shook my hand, but then I was older. Ford kissed me. Jimmy Carter kissed me in the White House, which means I was even older. And now I am simply female, black, and unemployed. Quoted in: Shirley Temple Black, Movie Star, U.S. Ambassador - Landon Lecture" Kansas State University, April 10, 1979. 1988 Robinson walked a step ahead of us, but when he noticed me hurrying to catch up, he shortened his stride to accommodate mine.I kept reaching up for his hand, but he hadn't looked down and seemed unaware.Fannie called his attention to what I was doing, so he stopped short, bent low over me, his eyes wide and rows of brilliant teeth showing in a wide smile.When he took my hand in his, it felt large and cool. Shirley Temple Black, Child Star: An Autobiography (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1988), pp. 90-91. Year Unknown 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. Quoted in The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations by Robert Andrews Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship. Quoted in Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women by Bill Adler, p. 94 I have no trouble being taken seriously as a woman and a diplomat here. My only problems have been with Americans who, in the beginning, refused to believe I had grown up since my movies. Quoted in: Johnson, Eric M. "Shirley Temple Black, child star who became diplomat, dies at 85" Reuters, February 2014. Politicians are actors too, don't you think? Quoted in: "Hollywood star Shirley Temple dies" BBC News, 11 February 2014. Macho attitudes usually fall victim to hard work, timely humor, and an absence of resentment. Quoted in: Kalb, Claudia. "Shirley Temple Black’s Remarkable Second Act as a Diplomat." Smithsonian Magazine, June 2022. Disputed Fuck off. Alleged response to being offered a guest star role on The Simpsons. Quoted in: Sorensen, Jeff. "Shirley Temple Was Once Offered A Role On ‘The Simpsons’ But Told Them To F*ck Off" Uproxx, 11 February, 2014. Executive producer Mike Scully stated in the DVD commentary for "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" that Temple was unable to record for her offered role.Scully, Mike (2008). Commentary for "Last Tap Dance in Springfield", in The Simpsons: The Complete Eleventh Season [DVD]. 20th Century Fox. Quotes about Shirley Temple When the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time during this Depression, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1935), quoted in "Happy Birthday, Shirley Temple" The Guardian, 23 April 2008. Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter. There were paper-doll books of her and of the Dionne Quintuplets-five identical girls born to a French-Canadian family and of the famous dollhouse of the actress Colleen Moore, which contained every luxury conceivable in perfect miniature, including a tiny phonograph that played Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting. I must have seen her dancing with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in The Littlest Rebel, but I remember her less as a movie star than as a presence, like President Roosevelt, or Lindbergh, whose baby had been stolen; but she was a little girl whose face was everywhere on glass mugs and in coloring books as well as in the papers. Adrienne Rich What is Found There (1993) Watching clips of her, it's so amazing that she was such a part of our film history from the very beginning. I'm sure it wasn't easy being a child star, although she went on to become an ambassador, so she re-invented herself along the way. But it's a great loss. I wish all the best for her family and thank her for her contribution. George Clooney, quoted in: "Hollywood star Shirley Temple dies" BBC News, 11 February 2014. External links Category:Actresses from Los Angeles Category:Dancers from the United States Category:Singers from the United States Category:Diplomats of the United States Category:United States Ambassadors to Czechoslovakia Category:United States Ambassadors to Ghana Category:Businesswomen from the United States Category:Anti-communists from the United States Category:Methodists from the United States Category:1928 births Category:2014 deaths Category:Women diplomats Category:Women singers Category:Women born in the 1920s