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Quotes by Actress


"I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status."

"You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying."

"Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already."

"I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person."
Mom,


"I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it."

"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."

"By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse."

"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."

"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage."

"My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic."

"There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962."

"People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz."

"When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat."

"When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long."

"You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive."

"I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her."

"I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show."

"She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop."


"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."

"That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least."

"You know, I like playing around with my voice and trying all different types of kooky voices."

"I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back."

"I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater."

"The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things."

"After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it."

"I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that."
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