Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.

She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life.

I think morale is the hardest part, not comparing yourself to someone else. I think everyone compares themselves to someone more successful than they are. Everyone does it. You have to embrace your own rocky path.

There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.

I'm not trying to make the world a better place.