I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
HEDY LAMARRTo be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
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I’m fifty-one years old, but I’m not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
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My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
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To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
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I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
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It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
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I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.
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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
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