Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.