I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
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.
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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.
Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady.
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.