[Hollywood is] a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.