Quotes About Red Heads

Many of these quotes have been circulating for a while; some were sent to me or just collected over time. I make no claim as to accuracy of the noted speaker's statements, but I did attempt to verify as many as possible.

If you find you've been misquoted and want correction or removal... or wish to be added to the list and you wish to be credited, please let me know!

-- "You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is."
(by character Anne Shirley speaking to her guardian Marilla in book 'Anne of Green Gables')

-- "Please just call me red-headed and forgive me."
(Anne to her love, Gilbert, in 'Anne's House of Dreams')

-- "When a fellow has a home and a dear, little, red-haired wife in it what more need he ask of life?"
(Gilbert speaking in 'Anne's House of Dreams')

-- "Fairy queens must be slender. Jane Andrews is to be the queen and I am to be one of her maids of honor. Josie says she thinks a red-haired fairy is just as ridiculous as a fat one, but I do not let myself mind what Josie says."
(Anne tells Marilla about the upcoming concert in 'Anne of Green Gables')

-- "Yes, it's green," moaned Anne. "I thought nothing could be as bad as red hair. But now I know it's ten times worse to have green hair. Oh, Marilla, you little know how utterly wretched I am."
(Anne, after trying to dye hair, to Marilla in 'Anne of Green Gables')

"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...) 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)

"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)
(Image: gdcgraphics)

"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." Quotes from: ("Times Online" interview 01/2010)

"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."
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." 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." (Interview for 'Grazia' www.graziadaily.co.uk/ - 02/2010)
(Image by rokfoto)

"It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage"
(Sarah Ferguson, formerly married to Prince Andrew)
(Image by Klem)

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)
(Image by Gina Hughes)

"My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead...so I dyed my hair."
(Jane Fonda, US 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.)
Her 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?"
(Photo courtesy Robb Boyd)

"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)

"I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show."
Quote: (According to imdb.com)
(Jeanette MacDonald, actress/singer)

(Christina Hendricks,actress)
The gorgeous curvy redhead said that at first she didn’t even realize she was different than a lot of the skinny waifs in Hollywood. "It might sound silly but I didn’t realize I was so different. I was just oblivious. Sometimes I would go on an audition and someone would say something like, 'Girl, you’re refreshing!' That was it." ...
Plus, when a 'New York Times' blogger called her a 'big girl' at the 2010 Golden Globes, she said of the attention -- "It kind of hurt my feelings at first. Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous, you get really self-conscious. I was working my butt off on the show ['Mad Men' TV series], and then all anyone was talking about was my body!" Quote: (February 2010 'New York Magazine' (nynag.com) interview -- 'The Woman of the Hourglass'.)

"Because of her voluptuous figure, she stated it's difficult to find fashions for larger ladies, as "there are only size 0s and size 2s available." Quote: 'Glamour Magazine' 2010 Interview)
(Image by Romina Espinosa)

*** The following quotes are by: Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (1881-1975) comic writer, known for English prose:

"Red hair in Wodehouse usually spells Trouble (with, as you may have noted, a capital 'T')..."
(The P.G. Wodehouse Society)

"I would always hesitate to recommend as a life's companion a young lady with quite such a vivid shade of red hair. Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous."
(By Jeeves in 'Very Good, Jeeves')

"He found himself face to face with an extraordinarily pretty girl. She was a red-haired girl, with the beautiful ivory skin which goes with red hair.
...She was not the prettiest girl he had ever seen...But there was a subtle something about her. A sort of, how-shall-one-put-it, which he had never encountered before. He swallowed convulsively. ...At last, he told himself, he was in love, really in love, and at first sight, too, which made it all the more impressive. ...But she had bitten him in the arm. That was hardly the right spirit. That, he felt, constituted an obstacle."
(From 'The Girl on the Boat')

"It ought to be a criminal offense for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?"
(by Bill in 'Indiscretions of Archie')

Quote from POEM by Sylvia: "Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and eat men like air."
(Sylvia Plath, author)

• "There is more, much more, to being a redhead than the color of one’s hair."
  (G. Adam Stanislav, red-haired photographer)

• "Redheads are less than 1% of the world's population. Now that is a minority! And, I thought, one that should qualify me for school scholarships or something like that."
  (Becky McAlpine)

• "All throughout history, from Reuben to Robbins, redheads have been recognized as a rare breed. Blondes may have more fun, brunettes may be brainier, but when it comes down to raw energy, creativity, and personality ... you just can't beat a redhead well, you can, but beware ... she'll probably beat you back!"
  (Redheads Unlimited ??)

• "Redheads are dry and easily irritated. And that's just talking about their skin!"
  (Apparently by a dermatologist)

• "I am strong. I am invincible. I am redhead."
  (Seen on T-shirt)

• "Two women in the house - and one of them a redhead!"
  (Character 'Michaleen Flynn' in John Ford's movie "The Quiet Man")

• "Of course, part of the problem with redheads is that there aren't enough of them. They make up just two percent of the population. So they're pretty extraordinary. Redheads are too numerous to be ignored, too rare to be accepted."
  (Grant McCracken, author, lecturer, anthropologist)

This "POEM ABOUT REDHEADS"
is a version of a Longfellow poem....

"There once was a girl with a strawberry curl
right in the middle of her forehead,
And when she was good she was very, very good
But when she was bad she was horrid."

...BUT ORIGINAL POEM IS...

"THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL"

"There was a little girl who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good, she was very good indeed.
But when she was bad she was horrid.

(Original: by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

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