An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
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.
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.
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
I am alone I am always alone no matter what.
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.
For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
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 think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
I think I have always had a little humor.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
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.
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
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 love a natural look in pictures.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.