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" I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN. "

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" Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. "

" I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "

" Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium. "

" My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time. "

" I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made. "

" When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill. "

" I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always. "

" I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. "

" Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it. "

" For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up. "

" You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. "

" You can't always be a leading lady. "

" I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look. "

" I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works. "

" Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. "

" Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls. "

" I am not a has-been. I am a will be. "

" My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it. "

" If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era. "

" I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be. "

" I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. "

" I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. "

" I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. "

" All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that. "

" I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' "

" Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. "

" I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire. "

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" Acting is a life of rejection. "