"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."
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"Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results."
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"The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative."
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"In spite of everything life is not without hope."
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"Remember now, Cheers, no tears."
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"We should all start to live before we get too old."
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"I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle."
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"I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic."
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"Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me."
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"Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine."
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"I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy."
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"There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent."
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"I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them."
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"The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle."
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"I love a natural look in pictures."
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"Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary."
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"There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'"
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"I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated."
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"It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing."
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"There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you."
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