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"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."
"Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood."
"The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back."
"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"
"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."
Explore more quotes by Kim Novak
"I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips."
"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."
"The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all."
"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."
"The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere."
"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."
"As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person."
"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."
"I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful."
"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."
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