But as long as one is alive, one can be vital. But you don’t give up until you stop breathing.

Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living?

They will only care when you’re gone.

I think to love bravely is the best and accept — as much as one can bear.

All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.

My God I wanted to learn! To change, to improve!

You miss so much when you’re young. It’s fine to be old. So exciting. And I’m not going to retire.

The true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things.

Jack Kennedy could have been a movie star himself. He had the charisma, the charm, that come-hither quality that can never be duplicated. Is it any wonder he got elected president?

The one thing a person wants most in life is usually something basic that money can’t buy.

It’s much better to know reality or things as they are than not to know, and to have few illusions as possible. Train my will now.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Keep it classy, never trashy, just a lil nasty.

I didn’t mind being a goof if only he loved me. I felt when we were together that I walked in the gutter and he on the sidewalk. All I did was keep looking up to see if there was love in his eyes.

Feel what I feel within myself — that is trying to become aware of it also what I feel in others not being ashamed of my feeling, thoughts — or ideas realize the thing that they are.

I do what I like, I like what I do.

I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here.

Love is rare, love is strange, nothing lasts and people change.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.

I know I’m not a perfect person but I can make a good relationship last forever…..

There are always two sides to every story.

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.

Being normal is boring!

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

Change is actually what you need to avoid.
Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,
when you try to change you try to fit yourself to other

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‘God, somebody’s made a mistake.’ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‘Remember, you’re not a star.’ Yet there it was up in lights.

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.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

I had to use my wits or else I’d have been sunk – and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, ‘do this, do that,’ and not just on the job but off, too. God, I’ve tried to stay intact, whole.

I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn’t see or hear or touch.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.

Try to enjoy myself when I can – I’ll be miserable enough as it is.

Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

All girls are beautiful in their own way.

I’m a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they’ve made of me — and that I’ve made of myself — as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman’s and I can’t live up to it.

I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I’ll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

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.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

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.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

There’s only one sort of natural blonde on earth – albinos.

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don’t believe it’s a sin or a crime, it’s your right if you do. Though it doesn’t get you anywhere.

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done …

That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I’m for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It’s really tragic.

I read poetry to save time.

I could never pretend something I didn’t feel. I could never make love if I didn’t love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you’re laughing again.

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don’t expect me to be serious about my work.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them – actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up because if you give up, you’ll never find your soulmate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie?

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important — you know.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn

Friendship is the bestest thing that comes to life. Friends will always be there for you, don’t worry about the fakes, worry about the people

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

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

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you’re a woman but loose enough to show you’re a lady.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven’t had a lesson since.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife…. I guess I am a fantasy.

I love to do the things the censors won’t pass.

Too often they don’t realize what they have until it’s gone.
…they’re too stubborn to say, ‘Sorry, I was wrong’
they hurt the ones closest to their hearts,
and we let the most foolish things tear us apart.

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, it’s society who’s ugly.

I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

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 used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You’re judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

Boys think girls are like books, if the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

I restore myself when I’m alone.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was being born a woman.

We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

I’m not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

I want to grow old without facelifts… I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I’ve made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

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

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Who said nights were for sleep?

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them.

If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

I’m pretty, but I’m not beautiful. I sin but I’m not the devil. I’m good, but I’m not an angel. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

A smile is the best makeup a girl could wear.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.

A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes’, we have standards.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He

If I ever let my head down, it will just be to admire my shoes.