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At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

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, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

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.'

If fame goes by, 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.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

I read poetry to save time.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.