Quotes by Jean Kerr

Jean Kerr

… it’s impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. … By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

Eye

Mouths

Wrinkles

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

Divorce

Friendly

Jobs

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

Long

Numbers

Phones

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Inspirational

Life

Marriage

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

Accomplishing Something

Ships

Water

Children are different – mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they’re all a little bit nuts.

Children

Different

Nuts

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write “I had a fun time”? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don’t know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

Acceptance

Fun

Writing

Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning

Lying

Morning

Stars

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

Coffee

Espresso

Hands

Don’t be silly. I’m a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I’m afraid of my mother.

Intelligent

Mother

Silly

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Acceptance

Accomplishing Something

Acting

Airplane

Alive

Atheism

Average

Baby

Beautiful

Beauty

Chaos

Character

Children

Christmas

Civilized

Class

Cleaning

Coffee

Cracks

Creating

Deals

Dear

Depressing

Different

Divorce

Done

Doors

Drinking

Elevators

Espresso

Evil

Eye

Firsts

Food

Friendly

Fun

Funny

Funny Inspirational

Girl

Good Morning

Grandma

Grandmother

Hands

Health

Heart

Horse

Humorous

Inspirational

Intelligent

Irritated

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Quotes by Jean Kerr

Jean Kerr

… it’s impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. … By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

Children are different – mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they’re all a little bit nuts.

Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

Don’t be silly. I’m a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I’m afraid of my mother.

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