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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Katharine Hepburn

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

Joyce Dewitt

I won't support it, ... I don't want anything to do with (Shirley).

Jack Bass

We're absolutely delighted that Gov. Perdue and Mayor Shirley Franklin see this effort as the true economic engine that we expect it to be. We just found a whole lot more horsepower to go after the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Mark Lazarus

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Tallulah Bankhead

(Josh) Shirley is still a game-time decision, but getting Jacob back is quite a lift. That will help us out on both sides of the ball.

Jamie Delaunois

Shirley and Joan have done kids' shows for about 40 years now, and I think they've got it down.

Georganne Arrington

Uranium left a deadly legacy on the Navajo Nation, which (Shirley) has called genocide. The tribe is giving up millions of dollars in royalties to keep history from repeating itself.

George Hardeen

That's Shirley, tough and vulnerable. She's the real thing.

Butch Vig

I can think of no one more deserving of this year's SAG Life Achievement award than Shirley Temple Black.

Melissa Gilbert

When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, it's indescribable. She takes her job very personally; it never shuts off with her.

Cheryl Anderson

I've seen all of the movies. I'm an old-school Bond fan. Sean Connery is our band's favorite Bond. Shirley feels a kinship with him because they're both from Scotland.

Butch Vig

I was told that they probably would not recognize each other, but they did. Shirley went right up to him and started to lick his ears and she's never acted like that with other dogs.

Phil Demeulenaere

Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

Clint Walker

He was in sorrow with me. And just as with Lazarus, Shirley will arise on the last day. All this came to me on the flight back, up 36,000 miles in the sky. And I recalled that she'd read her Bible more on this trip than she had in a long time, and she was enjoying herself, so all of that helps my heart.

Johnny Nelson

I've always loved working with young people. Shirley gave me the opportunity, and I'm so glad she did.

Nalo Hampton

Shirley is a good-hearted person who doesn't forget a name, ... They should take her to Sparta (Sparta, Ill. where the Grand will be moved to in 2006 after 81 years in Vandalia.).

John Butler

Oh, my God, Shirley.

Toni Collette

Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

Totie Fields

I don't expect anything in return. I have been giving for years. I was giving to Shirley before she became mayor.

Wayne Mason

It's a very rare Oscar because only a few were ever bestowed to child stars like me, Judy Garland and Shirley Temple. It means all the more to me because it was lost for 45 years and now I have it today.

Margaret O'brien

[It was the pre-season CAA-favored Rams' first conference victory (1-1-1). O'Sullivan has made a number of lineup alterations, among them moving senior left back Stephen Shirley to holding central midfielder.] In the last two weeks, he has been one of the bright spots, ... He has become an on-field leader we did not have.

Tim O'sullivan

And the rest is Shirley Jones Super FedEx magic.

Marty Ingels

Because there were so few blacks here then, in the 1980s, Shirley saw that missing here. She felt not enough attention was being paid to the kids and saw it as a void to be filled.

Lee Cox

The very first month I played it [Shirley Valentine] I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage . . .

Loretta Swit

The image that Milwaukee has as a 'Laverne & Shirley' town, as a Rust Belt city, is still a predominant issue.

Rebecca Ryan

I think we all like the idea of putting five dollars in and getting 100 from it. That's appealing, but I think it's also entertaining for a lot of people. It's something for Shirley in accounting to talk about with Bill in marketing. It's a way to connect.

Emily Watson

Fred Silverman (then-president of NBC) first saw the characters of Laverne and Shirley on 'Happy Days' and thought it would make a good series.

Eddie Mekka

Michael produced it on the phone from Bahrain. He talked to Shirley Caesar, he talked to James Ingram. He talked to everyone except me. Overall, it came out very well.

Eddie Levert