"I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying."
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"Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory.""
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"A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies."
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"Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet."
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"Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it."
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"I find vocabulary to be a great drawback."
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"All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing."
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"Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)"
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"Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time."
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"I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else."
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"I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe."
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"Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness."
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"My forties are the best time I have ever gone through."
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"I never tried to act until A Place in the Sun."
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"John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon."
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"... there is no deodorant like success."
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"The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting."
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"I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real."
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"There's no deodorant like success."
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"On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him."
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