Child Star Quotes

“This MGM flurry of concern about my body was unnerving. Having always taken my appearance for granted, I felt suddenly misshapen. Even Mother, whose earlier comments had always been good-natured, joined the critical chorus. [...] Stuck with myself, once again I resolved to stay friends with my body.”
― Shirley Temple Black, Child Star: An Autobiography

“Not for nothing was the MGM lot known as the "factory," a studio perfumed with sultry, busty creatures with long legs and tight haunches, and more than its quota of lecherous older men.”
― Shirley Temple Black, Child Star: An Autobiography

“To be hoisted onto laps, pinched by incredulous strangers, to occasionally get my curls tugged, to be cooed at, photographed, and quoted -all this was part of the job.”
― Shirley Temple Black, Child Star: An Autobiography

“Lesson one: Being a starlet is a complicated life, especially when you're four years old.”
― Shirley Temple Black, Child Star: An Autobiography