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" An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. "
Marilyn Monroe
Actress
Treat
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" Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. "
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" Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.' "
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" In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. "
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" I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like. "
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" Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had. "
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" The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. "
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" There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise 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. "
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" Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn. "
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" I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them. "
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" The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. "
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" Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. "
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" I wish I knew why I am so anguished. "
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Why
" When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own. "
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" The 'public' scares me, but people I trust. "
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" Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't digest things with my mind. "
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" Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind. "
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" 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. "
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" I restore myself when I'm alone. "
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