"My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fate for us. I know one thing - I've never planned anything that ever happened to me."
"I'm so afraid of hurting people's feelings I don't speak out when I should. I get into big messes that way."
"I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?."
"I'm one of those mad, irrational characters who simply love men. I love them because they're men. Women...I don't like to compete against them or play games, it's a waste of time."
"Beauty is only a look. It has nothing to do with what I'm like inside."
"I need a strong, secure man...someone who leads, but doesn't dominate. And at the same time, he's got to be sensitive and adventerous - someone who likes to do different things all the time. A man is sexiest to me when he is vital and creative; what he looks like in the mirror is strictly secondary."
"Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be, absolutely. My sex appeal, what it might be, isn't obvious...at least to me."
"Everybody has some certain sex appeal, everybody. But it's most effective when it's most natural. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world. People say to me 'Well it depends on who you're with doesn't it?', absolutley not! I am me all the time, no matter what, I can't function if I have to worry about being restrained or different from what I feel. I just don't bother with that scene."
"When Daddy transferred back to the states I convinced him that I'd be safe in Hollywood, you know how army men are, so terribly protective of their daughters. I used to hitchhike in LA to all the studios because I couldn't afford the cab fare. The men were so generous, especially the truck drivers, they all gave me lifts."
"Marty's a wheeler dealer, no doubt about that, but he's a man of his word, he sent me to drama school, he let me play bits in various TV shows. He saw that I got the best instruction in speech, singing, dancing, the whole works. He groomed me slowly and carefully without the slightest publicity, I was his secret weapon."
"Before Roman I guess I was in love with Jay, it was a fine relationship, but the truth is I was no good for Jay, I'm not organised, I'm too flighty. Jay needs a wife and at 23 I'm not ready for wifehood, I still have to live and Roman is trying to show me how."
"I will never be another Marilyn Monroe."
"Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks his prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. I'm very sensitive to ugly situations, I'm quick to read people and I pick up if someone's reacting to me as just a sexy blonde. At times like that, I freeze. I can be very alone at a party, on the set, or in general, if I'm not in harmony with things around me."
"I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare."
"If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create."
"I don't see any difference between being stark naked or fully dressed - if it's part of the job and it's done with meaning and intention."
"I've made movies and appeared on TV, but I have never appeared on the stage, and I don't know that I ever will. Live audiences frighten me to death. I am afraid of the Broadway stage."
"I really think that if you live for today, tommorrow takes care of itself."
"He's very sympathetic, very sensitive, very intelligent and a combination of explosives. You don't notice any one part of Roman - he comes at you in one dynamic blast! Roman is such a beautiful, mad human being. Sometimes things are difficult, sometimes good, but it makes life twice as interesting. He's wise, wonderful and brilliant and he knows everything. Roman has helped me to grow tremendously, it's about time wouldn't you say?! Because of him and his acting business, I'm starting to see things for what they're worth. Because I used to take everything at face value. Because when I say something I mean it...so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said, but of course that wasn't true and life isn't that sweet and simple. I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale...looking at everything through rose-coloured glasses, I probably always will to a certain extent."
"We have a very good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him."
"I've learned alot about me from being with Roman. My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel."
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