"People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be."
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"I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep."
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"Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star."
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"Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us."
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"Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?"
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"You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth."
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"I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time"
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"A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least."
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"I was fearless...and lawless."
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"Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking."
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"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents."
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"Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life."
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"I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's."
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"Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women."
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"Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer."
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"We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work."
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"Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all."
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"I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it."
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"Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four."
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"Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor."
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