I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.
BO DEREKMy mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can’t believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.
More Bo Derek Quotes
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Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.
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I think a high school girl hitchhiking is stupid. It was dangerous then and it’s dangerous now.
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It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger.
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There’s an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
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My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can’t believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.
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I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.
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When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.
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Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.
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I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.
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In California, I guess you belong to the state; you don’t even belong to your parents. It’s an old Spanish law. It doesn’t require your parents to swear out a complaint; anybody can.
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I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We’ve never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.
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I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
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He’s just fun, so much fun. I’m very happy now.
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I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it’s considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.
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It’s so easy to conform and to follow. It’s very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.
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I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn’t unhappy when I was single, either.
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I hate to run. I never, ever run.
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I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.
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I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.
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It’s been very nice. I haven’t gotten out too much because we’ve been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I’ve had a good time.
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I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don’t have a single passport that doesn’t have extra pages on it.
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When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something – usually an expression, something unique to their face.
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We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.
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You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered.
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Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.
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