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"According to the wire, you are resting well and are being taken care of by a nurse. I hope she is beautiful and that she has red hair. I don't know why, but whenever I dream of a nurse she always has red hair."
(Groucho Marx, US film actor/comedian, apparently wrote this in a letter to his son)
"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats."
(Mark Twain, humorist/writer)
"I would have loved to live in the time of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth, the best-dressed period of the world. You know I like color and flummery and all such things -- I was born red-headed. Maybe that accounts for my passion for the gorgeous and ornamental."
(Mark Twain in 'Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field').
"OH, SHE HAS RED HAIR! -- Turn up your nose at red heads! What ignorance! I pity your lack of taste. Why, man, red is the natural color of beauty! What is there that is really beautiful or grand in Nature or Art that is not tinted with this primordial color?"
(Mark Twain from essay in 'Hannibal Daily Journal,' 05/13/1853).
"When red headed people are above a certain social grade, their hair is auburn."
(Mark Twain in 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court').
Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) was himself a redhead. See my page on "Famous Authors" to read more about him...)Here is one of his other quotes --
"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they don't understand-- but I have always noticed that the passages that bother me are the ones I do understand."
(Courtesy www.comics.com/peanuts)
"I always have to eat lunch alone.
I'd sure like to eat lunch with that little red-haired girl...
I wonder what would happen if I walked over and asked her to eat lunch with me...
She'd probably laugh right in my face...
It's hard on a face when it gets laughed in."
Celebrity quote:('Charlie Brown' from "Peanuts" comic strip November 12, 1963 -- by Charles M. Schulz).
"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."
(Lucille Ball, US comedian, actress)
"We redheads are a minority, we tend to notice each other - you know, and notice our identity"
((Julianne Moore, US actress)
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"I had a director tell me once I wasn’t easy to cast." she says. "If you’re going to put a redhead on stage, there has to be a reason. It will change your eye."
[Asked - Why never color her hair??...] "I never did; I don’t know why. I only dyed it quite recently when I did 'Blindness', and I was convinced the character had to be blonde. But I hated it! I didn’t think it would bother me. I thought being a redhead was visible, but this....I didn’t feel like myself. The minute it was over, I was so happy to dye it back." ..."I was shocked by how much people get teased in the UK." Celebrity quotes from: ("Times Online" interview 01/2010)
"I don't love my freckles. I'd really rather not have them but there's nothing I can do about them." Celebrity quotes from: ("www.monstersandcritis.com" interview 10/2010)
"I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads."
(Laura Prepon, actress, shown here as blonde)
"Being a redhead helped distinguish me, but it also isolated me. But since I've been blond, I think it's made me more versatile. People are digging it, so I think I'm going to keep it a little while longer."
Celebrity quotes from: (Laura's interview by Marisa Guthrie, DAILY NEWS)
(Nicola Roberts, singer)
"For years I felt like the ugly one in Girls Aloud. I was tall, skinny, with red hair and the whitest skin you've ever seen - standing next to to four of the most gorgeous girls in Britain...I was the ugly one, the odd one out." Celebrity quotes from: (Interview by Dailymail.co.uk -- Feb.2008)
"I’ve begun to accept myself. I love my white skin, I love my hair and fashion has really been part of that journey of acceptance. I’m just a girl who loves fashion. I’m finding my way, finding my style and whatever anyone thinks I’m enjoying myself. Everything I wear now, I wear because I absolutely love it. I think I look good in it. I feel confident and I’m having fun. The fact I have white skin and red hair is my thing. It’s my different thing and in the fashion world, that’s OK." Celebrity quotes: (from interview for 'Grazia' www.graziadaily.co.uk/ - 02/2010)
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"It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage"
(Sarah Ferguson, formerly married to Prince Andrew)
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Shaun White's previous unofficial nickname used to be "The Flying Tomato" (which he hated, by the way) -- However, it's a nickname he has recently shunned and now prefers the moniker "The Animal" - being associated with the wild redhead Muppet drummer "Animal" -- saying, "That's kind of rad. I'm feeling it..."
(Shaun White, pro and Olympic snowboarder)
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"My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead...so I dyed my hair."
(Jane Fonda, US actress)
"I got teased for being a redhead when I was younger, which is strange because I'm Scottish and there are loads of us - we should unite forces! I love my red hair...." (Gillan added that she once dyed her hair as a teenager [inspired by the 'Bootylicious' video], but her parents weren't too keen on the results.).."My parents went mental. I had it for a good few months. That's my biggest fashion faux pas to date."
Celebrity quote: (UK magazine InStyle 03/16/2010)
The 23-year-old actress said she was teased so badly at school because of her looks that she couldn't wait to leave her home town of Inverness. She said: "I remember walking down the corridor and someone going, 'Eurgh, you're tall, lanky and ginger!' I'd been itching to get out for years." But she didn't let the jibes get to her. Karen said: "I'd never had a problem with being tall, and in terms of having red hair I always had a belief it would benefit me in the long run."
Celebrity quote: (http://blogs.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/03/11/karen-gillan-says-she-was-bullied-over-her-red-locks/)
(Karen Gillan, Scottish actress)
"I'm a redhead. Haven't you seen a Venus flytrap? When it's open, it's heart-shaped and the inside is RED. It looks inviting and shiny but remember: it's carnivorous."
(Liz Claman, anchorwoman for US financial shows on Fox Business Network.)
Celebrity quote is in response to an interview question by 'TVNewser': When you once commented, "I'm not some delicate flower...I'm more like a Venus Flytrap," what exactly did you mean?"
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"The more I see of men, the more I like dogs."
We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel [car], with several red Chow dogs to match my hair."
(Clara Bow, silent-film actress)
"When he returned to acting, his ambition focused on the stage because, he later stated, he had red hair.
There weren't a lot of redheaded people working in pictures. The cinematographers had a hell of a lot to say about things, and they liked guys with dark hair, eyes and skin because they photographed better in black-and-white . . . But one night a guy came to the theatre and said, "I like your work and think I can get you work in pictures". I had a red beard and red hair, and Republic had just gone to Trucolor . . . they needed a guy for the part of "Red" in 'Under Colorado Skies' (1947). It was a small part but I was paid $40 a day and I thought, 'Where has this been all my life?'"
Celebrity quote: (Courtesy of www.myfriendflicka.com, citing a London newspaper article published in 'The Independent' April 1998 by British reporter Tom Vallance.)
(Gene Evans, actor)
"I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show."
Celebrity quote: (According to imdb.com)
(Jeanette MacDonald, actress/singer)
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