I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.
Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.
I think I have always had a little humor.
People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.
Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
Nights are not just for sleep.
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
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.
I’ve given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it I’m sure it would frighten me.
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
I want the world to see my body.
Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.
When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Do not worry, and worry.
This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.
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