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Quotes by Actress

"I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected."

"I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet."


"It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way."


"I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff."

"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

"When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity."


"Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on."

"I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera."
Time,

"What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it."

"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."

"The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns."

"It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard."


"Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more."

"We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about."

"Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic."

"Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television."

"I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage."

"It was a place as blank as a sheet of paper. It was the place I had always been looking for... Flat expanses would call to me... These are the places where the desert is most itself: stark, open, free, an invitation to wander, a laboratory of perception, scale, light, a place where loneliness has a luxurious flavor..."

"There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants."


"Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?"

"I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him."

"I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music."

"Well, I don't know what Ron has in mind, but I do know about the arc of the show. Looking at how intuitive and instinctive Eddie and I play, that is the sort of thing that leads into sexual chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if it emerged."
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