Quotes by Kim Novak - Page 1

I was always opinionated.
Kim Novak / Actress
Opinionated
Always
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I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.
Kim Novak / Actress
Feels
Hollywood
Stars
Feel
Star
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Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.
Kim Novak / Actress
Czech
Matter
Names
Polish
Name
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If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.
Kim Novak / Actress
Flexible
Needs
Want
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I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.
Kim Novak / Actress
Perfect
San Francisco
Would Be
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We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.
Kim Novak / Actress
Scene
Three
Two
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I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
Kim Novak / Actress
Acting
Fame
Pain
Painful
Loved
Meaning
Search
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As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
Kim Novak / Actress
Confidence
Smile
Instinct
Losing
Said
Tough
Bad
Began
Instinctive
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I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.
Kim Novak / Actress
Easier
Going Away
Together
Want
Go Away
Relying
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So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.
Kim Novak / Actress
Movie
Complaining
Hands
Hitchcock
Say Anything
Complain
Either
Hand
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And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.
Kim Novak / Actress
Detours
Meant To Be
Shocking
Meant
Roads
Yes
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Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.
Kim Novak / Actress
Combination
Made
Thinking
Work Me Feel
Harry
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I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.
Kim Novak / Actress
Answers
Giving
Thinking
Answered
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For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.
Kim Novak / Actress
Answers
Hitchcock
Related
Thinking
Way
Life Way Know
Bring
Maybe
Question
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I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.
Kim Novak / Actress
Able
Aviation
Hollywood
Jimmy
Stuck
Trapped
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I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.
Kim Novak / Actress
Beautiful
Gentle
Lovely
Rights
Sensitive
Human Being
Rita
Stand Up
Tender
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I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.
Kim Novak / Actress
Beauty
Friends
Travel
Kim
Mind
Okay
Resentment
Tips
Anymore
Asked
Before
Her
Novak
She
Toward
Trip
While
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The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.
Kim Novak / Actress
Add
Hitchcock
Thinking
Way
Clues
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If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get really lost in that kind of image.
Kim Novak / Actress
Beautiful
Glamorous
Lost Friendship
Sexy
Image
Wanting
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My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.
Kim Novak / Actress
People
Security
Senses
Sensing
Steps
Tunes
Wanted
Me Step People
Direction
Step
Suddenly
Tune
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I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.
Kim Novak / Actress
Helpful
People
Sex
Sex Symbol
Thinking
Suffered
Marilyn
Monroe
Symbol
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I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice.
Kim Novak / Actress
Country
Nice
Thinking
Me People Live
Anymore
Forgot
Me Country People
Novak
Remind
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I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.
Kim Novak / Actress
Matter
Middle
Night
People
Vertigo
Time Movies Me
Touch
Reach
Right One
Touch People
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Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.
Kim Novak / Actress
Essence
Moving
Substance
Tree
Life Time History
Touch
Passage
Truly
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The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.
Kim Novak / Actress
War
Civil War
Thinking
Tree
Worship
War History Always
Admired
War History Me
Civil
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Script
Survive
Witnessed
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I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.
Kim Novak / Actress
Covered
Give Me
Giving
Jimmy
Needed
Path
Right Path
Soul
Definitely
Saw
Mine
Souls
Worked
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My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy.
Kim Novak / Actress
Decided
Heat
Mgm
Sound
Stage
Time Best Me
Male
Best Time
Best Time Me
Dressing
Dressing Room
Lion
Sudden
Trailer
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I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.
Kim Novak / Actress
Break Up
Smile
Break
Break Out
Caught
Deception
Gray
Trapped
Wigs
Inside
Me Feel Person
Desperately
False
Front
Putting
Suit
Wanting
Web
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The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.
Kim Novak / Actress
Movie
Film
People
Reputation
Revival
Rotting
Something Special
Special
Vertigo
Work People Nothing
Somewhere
Begun
Meant
Cans
Cared
Ended
Gained
Luckily
Recognize
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The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
Kim Novak / Actress
Changed
Chosen
Feelings
First Time
Names
Office
Time Me Never
Time Me Name
Seen
False
Swallowed
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