My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?
In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.
Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.
Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.
Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!
I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.
I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to.
There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it
People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.
I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights
Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.
Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.
A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.
Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.
I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.
Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.
I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.
I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.
I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.
Don't get involved with anyone who doesn't respect his mother.
Happiness never becomes a habit.
You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
Anything’s possible, almost.
It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, 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.
Fame will go by and, 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 experience, but that's not where I live.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
I keep my undies in the icebox!
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind.
Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.
There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.
But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.
...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.
Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.
The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.
We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.
