"On The Blue Angel (1930), I thought everything we were doing was awful. They kept a camera pointed here [groin]. I was so young and dumb." "I am not a myth." "I never enjoyed working in a film." In 1964: "I had no desire to be a film actress, to always play somebody else, to be beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me." "In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive." "A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms." "To be completely a woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long." "The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong." "Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret." "I am at heart, a gentleman" "When you're dead, you're dead. That's it" "If there is a supreme being, he's crazy." "In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact." "Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." "The diaphragm is the greatest invention since Pan-Cake makeup" "Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs." "I'm not an actress -- I'm a personality." "Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman!" [On Loretta Young] "Every time she 'sins,' she builds a church. That's why there are so many Catholic churches in Hollywood." "Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him." "I have a child and I have made a few people happy. That is all." "The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime." "There is a lack of dignity to film stardom." "I never ever took my career seriously." "I was an actress. I made films. Finish." "Gary Cooper was neither intelligent nor cultured. Just like the other actors, he was chosen for his physique, which, after all, was more important than an active brain." Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil, they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

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