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"I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio."
"So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back."
"God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't."
"I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at."
"I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself."
"And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that."
"I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two."
"I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years."
"I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world."