I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice.

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.