- [on why she wound up a waitress at an ice-cream parlor in Los Angeles at one point in her career] I see now that I was temperamental. I didn't cooperate with publicity. I didn't want to do cheesecake, not because my legs were bad, because they aren't. My entire training was as an actress and I didn't want to submit to the starlet routine. If I had it to do over again, I would do it differently. I realize now that cheesecake and publicity are an important part of the movie business.
- Marilyn (Marilyn Monroe) and I were neurotic children. That's why we have taken this business as a way of life. Instead of accepting things as they were, we sort of clammed up. We were very sensitive toward our surroundings. [As quoted in The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood by Ezra Goodman]
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