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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Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

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When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

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Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

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I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness. Lucille Ball

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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

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I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

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Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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