Anna Held

People look at me and look, but I do not care.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

For a married woman to flirt is a sin.

I know I am very beautiful.

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

One does not re-light a dead cigarette.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

I don't believe in hasty marriages.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.