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| I was not beautiful. When I went to Hollywood the beauties were people like Joan Crawford, Hedy Lamarr, Loretta Young. They were incredibly glamorous. I was always the girl next door. | | Uncategorized | |
| I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! | | Uncategorized | |
| I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. | | Writing | |
| I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime. | | Uncategorized | |
| I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success | | Passion; Success; Talent | |
| If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing. | | Uncategorized | |
| In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying. | | Uncategorized | |
| I´m no Sexgoddess but I haven't spent my life in a tree ... | | Uncategorized | |
| Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in. [To her daughter Isabella Rossellini, on acting] | | Uncategorized | |
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| Never again!! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough. | | Uncategorized | |
| No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul | | Art; Emotion; Movies | |
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| Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get | | Success | |
| Thank you for your coffee, seignor. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca. | | Uncategorized | |
| The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun. | | Uncategorized | |
| There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant. | | Uncategorized | |
| Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. | | Uncategorized | |
| Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. | | Uncategorized | |
