Great Throughts Treasury

"Ever notice how ?what the hell? is always the right answer?"

"Every woman that quotes me is a piece of shit."

"Everyone?s a star and deserves the right to twinkle."

"Everyone?s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don?t know if I?m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself ? or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another?s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other ? yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept -? as much as one can bear."

"Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle."

"Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal. Can't I be anything else? Gee, how long can you be sexy?"

"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."

"Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary."

"Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don?t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden. I feel that 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. I think that sexuality is only attractive when it?s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something I?d just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it?s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything."

"Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both."

"Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal."

"Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you."

"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."

"Fear is stupid. So are regrets."

"First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress."

"For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother."

"For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented."

"For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit."

"Friends accept you the way you are."

"Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life. Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day you?re going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person."

"Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage."

"Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world."

"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world."

"Goethe said, ?Talent is developed in privacy,? you know? And it?s really true. There is a need for aloneness, which I don?t think most people realize for an actor. It?s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you?ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you?re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They?d all like sort of a chunk of you."

"Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child."

"Here is [James] Joyce writing what a woman thinks to herself. Can he, does he really know her innermost thoughts? But after I read the whole book, I could better understand that Joyce is an artist who could penetrate the souls of people, male or female. It really doesn?t matter that Joyce doesn?t have? or never felt a menstrual cramp. To me Leopold Bloom is a central character. He is the despised Irish Jew, married to an Irish Catholic woman. It is through them Joyce develops much of what he wants to say."

"Hollywood is a place where they?ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because i turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."

"Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I?ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I?ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people."

"How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl."

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

"Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives."

"I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look."

"I am alone; I am always alone no matter what."

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."

"I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."

"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."

"I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."

"I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human."

"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."

"I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy."

"I am trying to prove to myself that I am a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress."

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right."

"I believe this: You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way."

"I could never pretend something i didn?t feel. I could never make love if i didn?t love, and if i loved i could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes."

"I defy gravity."

"I don?t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!"

"I don?t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. 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."

"I don?t mind living in a man?s world, as long as i can be a woman in it."

"I don?t mind making jokes, but I don?t want to look like one."

"I don?t stop when I?m tired. I only stop when I?m done... I?m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream... I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."