Great Throughts Treasury

"It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde."

"It?s all make believe, isn?t it?"

"It?s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all."

"It?s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

"It?s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."

"It?s not too much fun to know yourself too well or think you do ? everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through and past the falls."

"It?s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."

"It?s often just enough to be with someone. I don?t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You?re not alone."

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"

"It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all."

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

"It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake."

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."

"It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."

"I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, "Hi," that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me."

"I've always wanted a baby."

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

"I've been on a calendar, but never on time."

"I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them."

"I've never dropped anyone I believed in."

"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."

"I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people."

"Just because you fail once, it doesn?t mean you?re going to fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don?t, then who will? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life?s a beautiful thing and there?s so much to smile about."

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

"Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will?"

"Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out."

"Live while you're young"

"Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me."

"Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love."

"Love in this dying world but the simple word ?love? itself already died and went away."

"Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men."

"Maybe I?ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope."

"Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them."

"Men are climbing to the moon, but they don?t seem interested in the beating human heart."

"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them."

"Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many."

"Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do."

"Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them."

"My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me."

"My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!"

"My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?"

"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."

"Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture."

"Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met."

"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."

"Nothing lasts forever, so live it up; drink it down, laugh it off, avoid the bullshit. Take chances and never have regrets because, at one point, everything you did was exactly what you wanted."

"Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living."

"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."

"Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money."