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There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.
Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.
Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.
To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.
The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.
Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.
I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?
That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.
I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy.
A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots
(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.
I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.
Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.
People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.
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.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.