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" By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention. "

" Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe. "

" Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N. "

" Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle. "

" Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics. "

" Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well. "

" I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act. "

" I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. "

" I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early! "

" I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service. "

" I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work. "

" If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working. "

" The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields. "

" I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first. "

" The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies. "

" Many people consider me an old friend. "

" I remember telling President Carter on his first night, when I was escorting people around, that I was interested in continuing public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it? "

" My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover. "

" When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it off by saying, 'Your work makes them happy.' She never let it go to my head. "

" I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and grandmother... and diplomatic services for the United States government. "

" I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too. "

" Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes. "

" One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.' "

" Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank. "

" I did an imitation of him to make the crew laugh. To my shock, there was Cary Grant behind me. He got very angry. I was sent all the way from RKO to David Selznick's office and was told not to do it anymore. I thought to myself, 'I must have been pretty good to make him that angry.' "

" I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior's picture, 'married' or 'engaged.' I had marriage on the brain. "

" When I saw work shoes, I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child. "

" There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world. "

" I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl. "

" We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. "