I was never told what to read, and nobody ever gave me anything to read. You know the way there are certain books that everybody reads while they're growing up?So what I do is nights when I've got nothing else to do I go to the Pickwick bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard. And I just open books at random or when I come to a page or a paragraph I like, I buy that book. So last night I bought this one. Is that wrong?
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I am trying to prove to myself that I am a person. Then may be I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Fame is like caviar, you know, it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
When it comes down to it I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyway.
It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.
The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home. They're like people on a stage playing somebody else. They play that they're important, and they want you to meet their importance, not themselves.
I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? A woman who can have a family. I'd settle for just one baby. My own baby.