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| My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress, I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve! | | Actors and acting; Learning; Talent | |
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| No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl | | Uncategorized | |
| No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't. | | Beauty | |
| Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it. | | Uncategorized | |
| People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one. | | Uncategorized | |
| Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy. | | Friends | |
| Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. | | Nature; Sex | |
| Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work. | | Actors and acting; Work | |
| Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.' | | Ambition | |
| Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties...the ladies would gang up in a corner and discuss my dangerous character. | | Men and Women | |
| That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of. | | Hate; Sex | |
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| the nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least i can dream | | Uncategorized | |
| The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift). | | Uncategorized | |
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| The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another. | | Uncategorized | |
| The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. | | Censorship; Cinema; Movies | |
| The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When th | | Truth | |
