Valerie (I) (2019)

Valerie Perrine: Self

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Quotes 

• Valerie Perrine : When I was a little girl, I thought I was gonna be a movie star.

• Valerie Perrine : I had a nice body and I knew that men stared at me and that gave me lots of encouragement.

• Valerie Perrine : When I think back on my life, I think of myself as a showgirl, not as a movie actress.

• Valerie Perrine : They wanted girls to audition for the role of Montana Wildhack in "Slaughterhouse-Five" with - a two-piece bathing suit or bikini. And I had just spent time in the south of France and I didn't own a two-piece bathing suit. I had - it was all one thing. You wore a bottom and that was it. So, I did the audition with just my bottom on. George said I was the only girl that didn't stand there like this

  [arches her back] 

  Valerie Perrine : trying to look busty or - I just stood there with my boobs hanging out and talked and did my thing. And - he liked that.

• Valerie Perrine : No matter what life gives you, you have to fight.

• Valerie Perrine : The doctors don't know what's going on with me. They can't figure out what it is.

  Interviewer : What do you think it is?

  Valerie Perrine : Karma.