Mammy Quotes

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book. (Hattie McDaniel)
Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had. View quote
Hattie McDaniel
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful. View quote
Hattie McDaniel
My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.' View quote
Natasha Leggero
This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image. View quote
James Weldon Johnson
The film concludes with ... the most nauseatingly luscious, the most penetratingly vulgar mammy song that it has ever been my lot to hear. My flesh crept as the loud speaker poured out those sodden words, the greasy, sagging melody. I felt ashamed of myself for listening to such things, for even being a member of the species to which such things are addressed. View quote
Aldous Huxley
If good music has charms to soothe the savage breast, bad music has no less powerful spells for filling the mildest breast with rage, the happiest with horror and disgust. Oh, those mammy songs, those love longings, those loud hilarities! How was it possible that human emotions intrinsically decent could be so ignobly parodied. View quote
Aldous Huxley
We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home. View quote
Bronagh Gallagher
Scarlett tells Mammy 'I'm too young to be a widow.' She weeps to her mother 'My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore.' Her mother comforts her 'It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young.' View quote
Vivien Leigh
Grocer Jack, Grocer Jack, Is it true what Mammy said, You won't come back. Oh no, no. View quote
Keith West