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"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."
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"The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England."
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"My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now."
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"I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar."
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"Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end."
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"I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar."
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"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."
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"I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am."
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"I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary."
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"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."
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"As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have."
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"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."
Woman
"The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish."
Actor
"My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing."
Mother
"The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event."
Language
"I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance."
Romantic
"I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so."
Time
"I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford."
Friendship
"The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do."
Fun
"Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent."
Talent
"Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how."
Life
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