 Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup. |
| As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me! |
| In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium. |
| I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments. |
| I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe. |
| A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature. |
| I'm not sure the public knows what it wants. |
| I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for. |
| When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry. |
| In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way. |
| I don't yearn to be a child again. |
| There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful. |
| Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties. |
| A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. |
| I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. |
| I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself. |
| I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted. |
| As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life. |
| Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it. |
| I was a very wanting child. |
