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I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

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

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

No sex is wrong, if there's love in it.

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

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

You must feel attractive to be attractive.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over.

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

Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.

There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

I like to feel blonde all over.

I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

I'm the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.

(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.

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

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.

Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

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

To know reality (or things as they are than to have not to know and to have few illusions as possible - train my will now

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt ... and not get emotionally involved?

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

Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

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

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano
and dumb.

Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important - you know

I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes it's not that easy.

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

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

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.

I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

I do what I like, I like what I do.

Wise girls kiss but never love
Listen but never believe
And leave befor they are left

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.

If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell shouldn't schedule a meeting with me before 10am.

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

Love is rare,love is strange,nothing lasts and people change.

A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.

One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable.

I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.

Maybe I'll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

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

Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

There's no such thing as chance, it's all preordained.Lik e KISMET.

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

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.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

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

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.