Myrna Loy Quotes

“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.”
― Myrna Loy, Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming

“The tragedy is that thinking men, so-called intellectuals, seem to threaten the electorate. We have in this country an anti-intellectual strain that scares the bejesus out of me. Don't we want a bright man? Don't we want a creative man? Must we always have these hacks?”
― Myrna Loy, Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming

“Isn't political freedom an American right? That is what always horrifies me about these righteous purges; the implicit denial of our constitutional rights. We forget sometimes that the essence of democracy is to question. In those days, people thought- some still do- that liberal meant Communist. To me a liberal is one who moves slightly left when the Fascists get too strong and slightly right when the Communists get too pushy. A real liberal has to be flexible that way.”
― Myrna Loy, Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming