"I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror."
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"I think I have always had a little humor."
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"When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does."
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"I think I made his back feel better."
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"Nights are not just for sleep."
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"Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?"
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"Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him."
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"But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium."
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"This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection."
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"I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love."
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"Do not worry, and worry."
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"When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress."
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"As long as I can remember, I've always loved people."
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"I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape."
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"I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking."
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"Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living."
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"I want the world to see my body."
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"Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything."
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"I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife."
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"I have too much imagination to be a housewife"
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