"I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over."
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"I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower."
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"To be loved is very demoralizing"
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"He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world."
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"My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate."
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"I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract."
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"The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money."
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"If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal."
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"Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating."
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"I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear."
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"Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age."
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"Death will be a great relief. No more interviews."
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"Listen to the song of life."
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"Enemies are so stimulating."
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"All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go."
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"If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building."
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"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."
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"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."
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"I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up."
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"It's how you live that really counts"
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