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"My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy."
Time
"Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life."
Life
"I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people."
Movies
"I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice."
People
"The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive."
History
"For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way."
Life
"My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me."
People
"I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that."
Sex
"I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered."
Answers
"I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything."
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"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
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"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"
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"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
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"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films."
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"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."
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"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."
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