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I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Dogs never bite me - just humans.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

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

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

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

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

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

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

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

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

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.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.

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 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.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I've always wanted a baby.

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

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I don't digest things with my mind.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

You know, most people really don't know me.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

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.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

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

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

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

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

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

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

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

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

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

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