"What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?"
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"I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted."
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"It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live."
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"It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake."
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"There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos."
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"Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?"
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"You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way."
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"I enjoy acting when you really hit it right."
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"Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal."
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"I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved."
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"I believe in everything - a little bit."
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"You're always running into people's unconscious."
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"I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't."
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"Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?"
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"Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have."
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"Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now."
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"That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed."
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"The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down."
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"I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry."
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"Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde."
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