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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Drive on. We’ll sweep up the blood later!
Enemies are so stimulating.
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.
I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
It’s a business you go into because your an egocentric. It’s a very embarrassing profession.
It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.
It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.
Living wasn’t easy for you, was it? You couldn’t enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren’t you then; you were safe.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.
Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Someone asked someone who was about my age: “How are you?” The answer was, “Fine. If you don’t ask for details.”
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
한용운
종이라고 하는 것은 치면 소리가 난다. 쳐도 소리가 나지 않는 것은 세상에서 버린 종이다. 또 거울이란 비추면 그림자가 나타난다. 비추어도 그림자가 나타나지 않는 것은 세상에서 내다버린 거울이다. 보통 사람이란 사랑하면 따라온다. 사랑해도 따라오지 않는 사람은 또한 세상에서 버린 사람이다.
헉슬리
인생의 위대한 목표는 지식이 아니라 행동이다.