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" 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. "

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" 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 loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. "

" I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Patience was not my strong point. "

" I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant. "

" 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. "

" My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more. "

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

" You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't. "

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

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

" I was never my favourite subject. "