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"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
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"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face."

"As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release."

"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."

"I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty."

"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."
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"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."

"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."

"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."

"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."

"We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust."
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