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If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'

Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die.

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it--don't plan anything, just go out and do it.

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

It's not the skunk's fault that he's a skunk or that he gives off this really bad stink. If I am a skunk, I want to live as a skunk, I want to know what my truth is, to know the person I am without fear.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

We're not ordinary, you don't want to be ordinary.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?