"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."
"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
"Everyone's childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand."
Fear is stupid. So are regrets."
"First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress."
"For life: It is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: The truth can only be recalled, never invented."
"Give a girl the right pair of shoes and she'll conquer the world."
"Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."
"Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives."
"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."
"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
"I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy."
"I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up."
"I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. … Goethe said, "Talent is developed in privacy," you know? And it's really true. … Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever."
"If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything."
"If you get massages, you'll never need another sleeping pill."
"I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me — and that I've made of myself — as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it."
"I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful."
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
"It's all make believe, isn't it?"
"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation — but I'm working on the foundation."
"Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live."
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."
"That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing."
"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
"The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body — you know? It just doesn't seem feminine."
"The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves."
"Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."
"When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothes not you."
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"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
"Everyone's childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand."
Fear is stupid. So are regrets."
"First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress."
"For life: It is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: The truth can only be recalled, never invented."
"Give a girl the right pair of shoes and she'll conquer the world."
"Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."
"Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives."
"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."
"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
"I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy."
"I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up."
"I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. … Goethe said, "Talent is developed in privacy," you know? And it's really true. … Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever."
"If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything."
"If you get massages, you'll never need another sleeping pill."
"I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me — and that I've made of myself — as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it."
"I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful."
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
"It's all make believe, isn't it?"
"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation — but I'm working on the foundation."
"Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live."
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."
"That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing."
"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
"The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body — you know? It just doesn't seem feminine."
"The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves."
"Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."
"When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothes not you."
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