"I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people."
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"I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short."
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"Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?"
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"I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?"
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"I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not."
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"On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second."
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"The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives."
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"When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp."
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"I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian."
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"Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was 'Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,' like she enjoyed it without being egotistical."
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"I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt."
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"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
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"I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference."
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"People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz."
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"What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -- that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul."
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"If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down."
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"I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me."
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"Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and, God knows, from hate and from ignorance."
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"I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions."
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"I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on."
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