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I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

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You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

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What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

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I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

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I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

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When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

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If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

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I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

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It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.

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I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: September 16th, 1924

Died: August 12th, 2014

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