I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
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 won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
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.