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"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."
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"I don't think about Hollywood at all."
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"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
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"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."
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"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."
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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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"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
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"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
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"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
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"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."
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"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
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"Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss."
People
"It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman."
Dream
"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice."
Success
"My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand."
Home
"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."
Men
"I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt."
Being
"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."
Singing
"I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'"
Will
"I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong."
Care
"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."
Privacy
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