"I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels."
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"Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me."
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"I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul."
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"Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect."
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"All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through."
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"Fame gives you everything you never wanted."
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"I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years."
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"I've certainly never taken the care of myself that I should have. On the contrary. I've done a lot of late nights without enough sleep and all that. But I've had fun. Whatever wrinkles are there, I've enjoyed getting them."
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"Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong"
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"After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”"
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"I am deeply superficial."
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"Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home."
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"Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing."
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"Deep down, I'm pretty superficial."
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"Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all."
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"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."
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"He will always be my Sir Galahad."
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"I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood."
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"I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days."
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"For the loot, honey, for the loot."
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