As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person..

I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon..

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star..

I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we wo….

If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get re….

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was s….

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, ….

If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible..

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful..

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should b….

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together..

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's….

I was always opinionated..

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or ….

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name..

So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either..

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never ….

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work..

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should b….

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most..

I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It….