Success Quote by Loretta Young

A confession dressed up as a punchline: Loretta Young frames romance not as fate, but as another item on a personal to-do list. The line’s power is in its breezy equivalence. “Dream man” gets yanked off the pedestal and set beside the rest of her appetites. That’s funny, but it’s also quietly defiant for a star who built a public image on poise, virtue, and old-Hollywood polish. She’s admitting to desire and ambition in the same breath, refusing to pretend she floated serenely toward domestic bliss.

The word “impatient” does the real work. It undercuts the era’s preferred script for women, which rewarded waiting: waiting to be chosen, waiting for the right proposal, waiting for life to begin. Young swaps that passivity for urgency. It’s a small linguistic rebellion, insisting that wanting love can look like wanting a career, a role, a life with momentum.

There’s also a wink of self-critique. Impatience isn’t glamorized; it’s presented as a lifelong trait, almost a minor flaw she’s learned to narrate with charm. That self-awareness keeps the quote from sounding like entitlement. Instead, it feels like someone who knew how to play the game of public femininity while privately keeping score.

Culturally, it lands as a bridge between two myths: the studio-era fantasy of the “dream man” and the modern reality that women chase, curate, and sometimes hustle for what they want. Young makes that hustle sound honest, even a little mischievous.