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

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" I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to. "

" 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. "

" In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. "

" When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "

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

" You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. "

" The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation. "

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

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

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

" Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. "

" 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. "

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

" I am essentially a loner. "

" A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days? "

" It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. "

" 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. "

" Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. "

" I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. "

" Acting is a life of rejection. "

" 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. "