Top 30 Dorothy Quotes

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

Don’t worry about me. Worry about the next man. If you see me in a fight, don’t help me. Pour honey on me and then help the bear. Don’t worry about me. I’m Dorothy Bowe’s baby boy. I’m going to be all right.

When I was a senior, I did my senior class play, and that was pretty much it… It was ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and I was Dorothy.

I really like Amelia Earhart. She’s from Kansas. She disappeared, so I have to take her place. I want to be Dorothy. I want to be Amelia Earhart… I want to do it all.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested – they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.

‘The Wizard of Oz’ is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.

I’ve always been a bit of a clown. But I think the seminal moment was when I was sixteen, and I auditioned for a little production of The ‘Wizard of Oz,’ and I was like, ‘Clearly I’m Dorothy!’ And they were like, ‘We’d like you to play the Wicked Witch.’

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade – I wanted to be a nun.

People’s outlook on Kansas City is always like, ‘They let you rap in K.C.?’ Or ‘How’s Dorothy and Toto?’ They put Kansas and Kansas City together, when it’s really separate.

When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and it was very critically hailed by my school paper!

To me, I’m sort of like Dorothy in ‘The Wiz.’ It kind of parallels my life. It’s a story that reminds me… that home is where the love is. So if I go to Tampa or St. Pete, and I feel the love there, that’s my home. That’s where the love is.

I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in a production in my dad’s barn.

I was influenced by big, strong voices – writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; gay writers like Ed White, Michael Cunningham, Allen Hollinghurst; and contemporary lesbian writers, like Dorothy Allison.

I started as a fairy on the ‘Dorothy the Dinosaur Show.’ That was mainly just a national tour that featured Dorothy the Dinosaur.

We’re not all called to be Dorothy Day.

I’m no relation to Lillian or Dorothy Gish. Not even way back. But when I first became interested in acting, I wrote a letter to Lillian Gish. She wrote back, discouraging me from entering the business.

There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn’t ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and I was so confused. I was like, ‘Wait a second, what is Dorothy doing in this movie?’ And that’s when I became fascinated. I didn’t realize there were actors.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

I played Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ That was my first role on stage.

Well, it’s quite strange because there are three new Wiggles – Simon the red wiggle, Lachlan the purple wiggle and myself. We were already in the company doing different roles. Like, I was the fairy, the ballerina, and that kind of thing originally, and then I played Dorothy the Dinosaur and I was a Wiggles dancer.

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood.

Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle Tacitus, ponder Plutarch, plow through Gibbon. Then they get to Thomas Carlyle and feel like Dorothy when she touched down in Technicolor Oz.

Dorothy B. Hughes – there’s a robust elegance to her writing that I keep responding to again and again. I’ve read her novel ‘In a Lonely Place’ about eight or nine times.

I could hardly believe that she really existed, that she wasn’t a dream. There was something miraculous about Dorothy Stratten.

I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

My grandmother, Dorothy Walker Bush, worked long, hard hours for the Red Cross during World War II because it was the right thing to do for her community. The example of his parents established my father’s belief that every human has the capacity to serve their fellow man.

I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O’Hara.

I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Chicago’s Center on Deafness in Northbrook, Illinois.