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"I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years."
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"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."
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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
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"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."
Home
"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."
People
"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."
Talent
"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
Father
"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
Interest
"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
Career
"Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set."
Behavior
"Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish."
Life
"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."
Beauty
"I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection."
Reflection
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