"I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times."

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"I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times."

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"When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that."

Thought

"I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable."

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"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."

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"I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward."

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"I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home."

Home

"I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me."

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"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am."

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"People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal."

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"He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!"

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"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes."

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