I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.

If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.