"Love fattens on smooth words."
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"It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack."
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"I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself."
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"I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'"
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"I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him."
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"The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness."
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"Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell."
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"Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about."
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"People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck."
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"To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest."
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"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do."
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"Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?"
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"If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting."
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"You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself."
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"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky."
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"Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer."
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"My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best."
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"The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night."
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"Without discipline, there's no life at all."
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"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."
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