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

“I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.”

“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.”

“Who said nights were for sleep?”

“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.”

“Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?”

“All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”

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

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

“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.”

“Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.”

“My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I’m working on the foundation.”

“I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.”

“Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.”

“First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.”

“Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, Fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle.”

“If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.”

“Everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don’t think they realize it, but it’s like ‘grrr do this, grr do that…’But you do want to stay intact and on two feet.”

“They will only care when you’re gone.”

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

I have to be myself.

I've been very lucky.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.