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"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
Marriage

"Death will be a great relief. No more interviews."

"Only the really plain people know about love-the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents."

"Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about."

"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."

"It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean."

"Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe."

"Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!"

"Without discipline, there's no life at all."

"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky."

"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex."

"Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four."

"Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details.""

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."

"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."

"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do."

"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession."

"The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."

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