"When you've lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered and been madly happy and desperately sad-- well, that's when you realize that you'll never be able to write it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first."

"I hate the wake-up pills the worst, because they make me hop around like a Mexican jumping bean."

"My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure."

"I'm the original take-orders girl."

"It's lonely and cold on the top ... lonely and cold."

"You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many."

"I can live without money, but I cannot live without love."

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."

"I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms."

"When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad-- well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first."

"From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between M-G-M and me-- whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood."

"I was born at the age of twelve on an M-G-M lot."

"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."

"Good singing is a form of good acting."

"I have a machine in my throat that gets into many people's ears and affects them."

"I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them."

"I have the unfortunate habit of not being able to have an affair with a man without being in love with him."

"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."

"I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back."

"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality."

"How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child."

"If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?"

"I don't want to be a harridan on the screen, and I don't think people want me to be."

"My, I'm a loud lady. No crooner, I."

"There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life ... I think I must have been crying for some attention."

 

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