“The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.”

“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”

“I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.”

“I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.”

“If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.”

“I think I have always had a little humor.”

“Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.”

“Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.”

“I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”

“Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?”

“If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.”

“If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!”

“I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.”

“Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.”

“If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.”

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”

“You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.”

“I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.”

“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.”

“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.”