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" Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. "

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" If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! "

" When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries. "

" I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle. "

" All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.' "

" I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers. "

Looking Forward

" 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. "

" 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 when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. "

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

" 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. "

" I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so. "

" 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. "

" Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst? "

" I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing. "

" The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!' "

" 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 learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since. "

" I want the world to see my body. "

" A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings. "

" I don't digest things with my mind. "

" The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. "

" A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many. "

" I think I have always had a little humor. "

" Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had. "

" One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel. "

" My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation. "

" What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. "

" I've always wanted a baby. "

" A smart girl leaves before she is left. "

" I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress. "