“I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious,...” — Jeanette MacDonald Quote

“I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?”

“The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.”

“I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.”

“Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist East, where it was one of the few freedoms allowed.”

“I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.”

“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”