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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.
I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.
My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
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As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.
I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.
I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
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.
It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
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It's all make believe, isn't it?
