Top 40 Doris Day Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”

— Doris Day

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2. “If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.”

— Doris Day

3. “I’ve never met an animal I didn’t like, and I can’t say the same thing about people.”

— Doris Day

4. “I’m not going to go around with a long face – that’s a waste of time.”

— Doris Day

5. “I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that’s all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.”

— Doris Day

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6. “I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.”

— Doris Day

7. “I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.”

— Doris Day

8. “Your skin, and your whole body, goes into repair mode when you sleep.”

— Doris Day

9. “If there is a heaven, I’m sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.”

— Doris Day

10. “For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.”

— Doris Day

11. “I’m going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I’ll never stop.”

— Doris Day

12. “I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.”

— Doris Day

13. “Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.”

— Doris Day

14. “If it’s true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.”

— Doris Day

15. “No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.”

— Doris Day

16. “I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they’ve all gone to heaven.”

— Doris Day

17. “Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.”

— Doris Day

18. “I’ve been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls – you know, those dolls you could push down and they’d come back up? I’ve always been like that. I’ve always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.”

— Doris Day

19. “A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.”

— Doris Day

20. “If so many people love me, how come I’m alone?”

— Doris Day

21. “The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I’d sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.”

— Doris Day

22. “I like to sing love songs.”

— Doris Day

23. “I liked being married instead of the girl who’s looking for a guy.”

— Doris Day

24. “I couldn’t walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.”

— Doris Day

25. “I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog’s loyalty.”

— Doris Day

26. “Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.”

— Doris Day

27. “I don’t know if I want to get married again.”

— Doris Day

28. “I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it’s just an amazing life that I’ve experienced.”

— Doris Day

29. “You haven’t lived until you’ve lived with a cat.”

— Doris Day

30. “It has been said that the body is like an automobile – it’s yours, but it isn’t you.”

— Doris Day

31. “I don’t even like parties.”

— Doris Day

32. “I always felt that making a living wasn’t the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.”

— Doris Day

33. “DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you’re missing it.”

— Doris Day

34. “The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.”

— Doris Day

35. “I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.”

— Doris Day

36. “Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.”

— Doris Day

37. “Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn’t meant to be, and we have no right to do it.”

— Doris Day

38. “A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.”

— Doris Day

39. “It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost.”

— Doris Day

40. “It was the only ambition I ever had – not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.”

— Doris Day

41. “I like Michael Buble.”

— Doris Day

42. “The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.”

— Doris Day

43. “It’s quite an experience to have filming done in your house. When they come in, they photograph every piece of furniture and where it is so they can get them back exactly where you had them. You’d never know they’d been here.”

— Doris Day

44. “When I see Liz Taylor with those Harry Winston boulders hanging from her neck I get nauseated. Not figuratively, but nauseated! All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.”

— Doris Day

45. “I’ve just always loved animals.”

— Doris Day

46. “Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?”

— Doris Day

47. “Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn’t meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.”

— Doris Day