Joan Fontaine Quotes

My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.

'Empire' deals with the black experience, the human experience, sibling rivalry, what it feels like to be ignored or doted upon by a parent, illness, death. There are so many things that I think the audience can identify with.

I am the only one who is not married among my siblings.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.

As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.

It's boring whenever Michael's name has to be said next to mine. But I understand; there have not been too many brothers in formula one.

Overcoming my sister's shadow was the biggest thing I ever tried to do.

When everything kind of hit the fan, my dad married Jo Anne, and suddenly there were five kids from the Ripleys and five kids from the Doughertys. Then my dad and Joanne had a baby. I usually have to make a diagram.

My dad went to the Olympics, so he has that one over me. So if I go there, I'm pretty sure he has nothing to say anymore.

I wouldn't do a lot of the things most actresses do, and that includes my sister.

My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this.

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

I'm a huge film star... but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f--ing minutes. I'm the only guy I know who died in a f--ing Muppet movie.