"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."

"The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space."

"Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men."

"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent."

"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights."

"The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another."

"Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me."

"You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love."

"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."

"Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives."

"I restore myself when I'm alone."

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

"First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress."

"When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life."

"I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated."

"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night - there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."

"One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel."

"If I'm a star, then the people made me a star."

"My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots."

"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one."

"Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life."

"Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??"

"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."

"It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

"A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing."

"Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity."

"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."

"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."

"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."

"The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any."

"Fear is stupid. So are regrets."

"Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence."

"I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."

"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."

"I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!"

"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."

"The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves."

"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."

"I am alone I am always alone no matter what."

"Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them."

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them."

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

"Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?"

"Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you."

"Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child."

"Change is actually what you need to avoid.Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,when you try to change you try to fit yourself to other people's standards.You deny your own values and opinions, and you adopt a personality that isn't you.And most likely you will be more uncomfortable even though it may seem like you fit in more, i would suggest you not to change. Just be yourself, the way you are.Because that's what makes you different and distinguishable and unique from every other individual."