Daily Inspiration Quote by Loretta Young

There’s a bracing candor in calling emotions “my business, my stock-in-trade.” Young doesn’t romanticize acting as mystical self-expression; she frames it as labor, a profession where feeling gets handled like inventory: acquired, displayed, controlled, sold. The phrasing carries a faint chill. If emotions are stock, they can be managed, rationed, packaged for public consumption. That’s not an insult to the craft so much as an unvarnished description of what classic Hollywood demanded: not just talent, but emotional discipline under relentless scrutiny.

The second sentence quietly sharpens the point. “I’ve dealt with them nearly all my life” reads less like a confession than a résumé, a reminder that emotional fluency was never optional for a woman whose face was her livelihood. “Dealt with” is doing heavy lifting: it suggests negotiation, mitigation, even containment. The subtext is that feelings aren’t merely experienced; they are processed, survived, put to use.

Context matters here. Young’s era sold femininity as sincerity while running it through studios, publicity departments, and moral codes that staged “authentic” emotion as a product. Off-screen, her own biography included intense pressures to protect an image, making the line feel like a small act of control: if the world is going to treat your inner life as a commodity, you might as well name the terms. In that sense, the quote is both craft advice and a boundary: emotions are real, but in her world they were also the job.