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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.
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Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.
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Do not worry, and worry.
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The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
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Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
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What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
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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.
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Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
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My heart belongs to daddy.
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When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.
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Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.
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If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
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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.
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Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
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I don't digest things with my mind.
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This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.
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When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
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Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?
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I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
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I'm pretty, but not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.
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I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.
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I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.
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