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"Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work."
"A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing."
"Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?"
"Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too."
"I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly."
"Diamonds are a girls bestfriend"
"I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me."
"The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves."
"To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation."
"I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have."
"If I'm a star, then the people made me a star."
"First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress."
"I'm going to be a great movie star some day."
"A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of."
"Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one."
"I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus."
"Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet."
"I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself."
"In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo."
"How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl."