Doris Day

I’ve always said, "No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up."

Doris Day (born April 3, 1922) is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate.

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• The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
  • As quoted in Doris Day : Her Own Story (1975) as told to A. E. Hotchner

• 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."
  • "People Who Matter: An Interview with Doris Day" by Cameron Woo and Nellie McKay in The Bark, Issue 34, (January - February 2006)

Misattributed

• Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
  • Though she is quoted as saying this in a 1996 interview, she is quoted as saying it is a maxim which she follows as a Christian Scientist, and it seems to come from words of a Christian Science Hymn. It does come from Hymn 249 in the Christian Science Hymnal