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"I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania."
"I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things."
"I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life."
"I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation."
"If you want to have plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, live it up; go ahead and have it. But if you don't want to have it, don't have it."
"I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process."
"Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more."
"I swear to God, I went in to buy bikinis, and the lady's like, 'You're not getting out of this store 'til you get down there and show me what you do for those abs and the arms.' She wouldn't sell me my bikinis! I had to get on the floor and do the stomach thing."
"If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery."
"To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go."
"You can only sleep your way to the middle; you have to claw your way to the top."
"Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life."
"I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?"
"I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people."
"Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed."
"Dior makes the best lip glosses going. I'm nuts about them, especially the clear one with the silver sparkles. I got addicted to DiorShow Mascara, too. It makes you look like you're wearing false eyelashes. It's the only one that rivals Maybelline."
"I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media."
"I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe."
"I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician."
"Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl."