Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

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I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.

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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

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Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.

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The more things you do, the more things you can do.

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

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I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.

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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

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