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The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.
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There are worse things in life than being called a lady.
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Hollywood is fond of gushing chit-chat as any other town.
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I don't give my phone number to strangers. It's Plaza 5048.
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This is an amazing business, creative and mechanical at the same time.
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One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.
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No education is ever wasted and everything you learn is helpful in acting.
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I always demanded respect. I came prepared and expected others to do the same.
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Any young girl aspiring to a theatrical career held Florenz Ziegfeld in a awe.
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Mother, an accomplished musician, taught me to play the piano as a very small girl.
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That's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.
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Tackling one thing at a time, I have managed better than I would have thought possible.
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It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.
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Our home in Louisville, Kentucky, where I was born on December 20, was one of great happiness.
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In addition to actual dramatic training and experience, I'd want as much education as possible.
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If I arrived in Hollywood today, I would keep reminding myself not to try to make a big impression.
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You'll be much better equipped for a long life in pictures if you have a sound theatrical background.
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Now don't you dare call me normal. I was never a Pollyanna. There was always a lot of Theodora in me.
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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.
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I had great cameramen like Rudolph Mate and Hal Mohr. They'd take an hour to light the proper closeup of me.
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Surely it isn't entirely normal to see fingers pointing at you as a rare species, the only one in captivity!
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You have no idea how it feels to know that you've cut someone to the quick. I'll never do it again, never, never.
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You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.
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There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.
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Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
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Born:
December 20, 1898
Died:
September 4, 1990
(aged 91)
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