Grace Kelly Quotes

A standard day usually starts very early - 4.30 A.M. pick-ups and in the make-up chair by 5.30.

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

I actually have a little routine I do before every shoot. I put a face mask on before bed and make sure I go to sleep early. Then, I get up early and make myself breakfast and get in a workout.

All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that.

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.

Whether in light touches or for a more glamorous look, I never go out without make-up - even if it's only a lick of mascara. And I always wear perfume, a light or more intense version.

My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother's studio, and for years, I went to the studio after school and just watched how she captured these beauties.

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

Ahead of going on the red carpet, in the morning, I'll put on a clay mask to prepare.

Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big star; it was just the movies that had gotten smaller.

Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial looking. The first day, I was introduced to Clark Gable. He said, 'Hello, kid. Welcome to MGM. I'm just leaving.'

Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were my special friends at MGM.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.

I prefer to do my own make-up.

I can't sleep with my make-up on. There is something about it. It doesn't matter what time it is; I just can't do it.

I keep my skin clean and moisturised. While shooting, my skin has to put up with severe make up and lights for hours at a stretch. So I am obsessive about taking my make-up off as soon as I am done.

Try and use less make-up whenever you can.