TIL When Shirley Temple's acting career fizzled out, she chose a second career in public service and became the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in 1969.

“When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was ... I've been getting younger ever since.”

“Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.”

“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”

“I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about 8 years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal!”

“I have no trouble being taken seriously as a woman and a diplomat [in Ghana]. My only problems have been with Americans who, in the beginning, refused to believe I had grown up since my movies."[Stated after her 1974 appointment as U.S. ambassador to Ghana.]”

“As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.”