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

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" I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress. "

" I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen. "

" 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. "

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

" Acting is a life of rejection. "

" That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you. "

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

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

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

" I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life. "

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

" Patience was not my strong point. "

" I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way. "

" I am essentially a loner. "

" 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 was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. "

" You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. "

" There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree. "

" I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! "

" Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you. "

" We live in an age of mediocrity. "

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

" 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. "

" I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene. "

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

" Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. "

" 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. "