"All that counts is what is on the screen."

"No man falls in love with me I don't want to fall in love with me."

"I have feelings for people, not for cities. Mostly I live in suitcases."

"Duties are what make life most worth the living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. And this would be like living in an empty space. Or not being alive at all."

"When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it."

"If you want to die, go die. But don't be a bore about it."

"I never got nothing for nothing in my life."

"I work. And as long as people want me, and I have them eating out of my hands, I shall continue."

"A film star's career can only last as long as one's youth lasts, and one's youth fades far quicker on the screen than on the stage. The public can be fooled on the stage, but never on the screen."

"You must bear in mind, the American film public is seventy-five percent children, and you have to meet their standards."

"Admiration from unknown people leaves me cold. The fame that can completely alter the personality of a human being has no power over me."

"I was always indifferent to the glitter of fame. I found it troublesome, crippling, and dangerous. I detested it."

"I am at heart a gentleman."

"I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men."

"Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade."

"Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them."

"I am not a myth."

"When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered." (on Orson Welles)

"I never enjoyed working in a film."

"On The Blue Angel, I thought everything we were doing was awful. They kept a camera pointed here (groin). I was so young and dumb."

"I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me."

"The Germans and I no longer speak the same language."

"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."

"The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong."

"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."

"Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring."

"Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him."

"I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes."

"Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."

"In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact."

"If there is a supreme being, he's crazy."

"When you're dead, you're dead. That's it."

 

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