“I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I’ve never accepted anything I haven’t earned.”

I don’t know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what’s her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don’t know how they got there.

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don’t consider myself a dull subject.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce … some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Most girls don’t know what to do with what they’ve got.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don’t believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

We live to love you more each day.

You gotta have a body.

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee – a lot more.

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

I’ll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.

When I’m 100 I’ll still be doing pin-ups

I don’t particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.

Friendships exist in the fluctuations between acceptance and rejection.

I accepted all of you – except for the vital part, that couldn’t accept all of me.

Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.

I guess I was the son you didn’t want but I grew into a man every mother would love. In your rejection, I was forced to find acceptance I filled your absence with the strength to be better.

Healing was not found in mending my brokenness, but in finding peace among the pieces.

Into you, like the sun embraces the moon – a beautiful eclipse.

Let self-love be the oxytocin for your body let it captivate your bones with self-acceptance.

Though it may be the season I’m not quite in bloom but slowly unfolding to where I may accept the sun and someday bloom.