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Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?
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In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
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Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.
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For life: It is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
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I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
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(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.
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Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
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I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.
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Sisters make the best friends in the world.
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I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell - she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. Finally, I really got to this kind of level and I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!
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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.
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I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights.
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Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
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I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
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We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
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How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
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The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
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There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation - but I'm working on the foundation.
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
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Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?
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The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.
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