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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.
I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.
It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.
I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price.
I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.
If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.
My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them.
You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.
The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.
In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.