I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.
I wish I knew why I am so anguished.
I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.
I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
Friends accept you the way you are.
We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'
I don't digest things with my mind.
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.
I like to feel blonde all over.
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.
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.