Shirley Temple

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first.

I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work.

When I saw work shoes, I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.