Daily Inspiration Quote by Loretta Young

A neat little triple-lock of narcissism: deaf, dumb, and blind, not as disabilities but as willful self-enclosure. Loretta Young’s line borrows the cadence of a nursery rhyme and the bluntness of a confession, then turns it into a moral self-portrait. The punch is in the escalation. “Deaf” suggests refusing to hear other people’s needs. “Dumb” hints at silence when speech would have meant accountability. “Blind” lands hardest: an admission that reality itself was edited down to a single starring role.

As an actress, Young understood how a persona is built by selective attention. The phrase “all but me, myself and I” reads like a curtain call that never ends, the ego taking three bows. It’s a comic rhythm with a sharp edge, because it frames self-absorption as both absurd and frighteningly effective. The line doesn’t ask for sympathy; it names a survival strategy that, in Hollywood especially, can look like professionalism. You keep your focus narrow, you protect the brand, you don’t let the noise in.

The subtext is a reckoning with the costs of that strategy. Young’s era demanded spotless images and airtight secrets; women were expected to be simultaneously visible and controlled, luminous but unmessy. In that context, “blind to all but me” can signal ambition, self-protection, denial, or all three at once. The brilliance is its candor: she doesn’t prettify the motive, she exposes the mechanism. It’s not just self-centeredness; it’s self-mythmaking under pressure.