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"I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me."
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"Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back."
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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"

"One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again."

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times."
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"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."

"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."

"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing."

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

"Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously."

"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."

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

"They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness."
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