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Quotes by Actress


"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."

"I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it,seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?"

"I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor."

"I don't think about going back to the theater."

"I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me."

"My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's."

"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."

"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy."

"I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart."

"I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve."

"Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone."

"I would kill the clone. That would be my first response."


"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."

"I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie."

"It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around."

"Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination."

"My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing."


"I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road."

"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."

"Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it."


"I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did."

"Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be?"

"As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't."


"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships."

"That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated."

"I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book."

"So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough."


"I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good."
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