[interview in People magazine, 1993, on becoming a spokesmodel for Guess Jeans] I finally feel like I`m becoming somebody. I really think like I can do something. I just know I`m going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There`s things I wanted to do and couldn`t. I was an abused wife. Just -- there`s tons of things that I couldn`t even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it`s just -- it is a Cinderella story to me.

[1994, about her son Daniel] He`s seen everything -- even my videos. He just thinks, "It`s mom." He`s more like a father or a husband. He says, "Mom, if you don`t call me by this time, I`m going to be very worried." And if I don`t call him, he`s at the door, shaking, crying because he`s afraid that something happened to me. He`s so protective.

[in 2005, about her breasts] Everything I have is because of them.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don`t date. It`s hard to date when you`re at home. Nobody knows you.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.

I don`t date. It`s hard to date when you`re at home. Because nobody knows you.

[1992] I didn`t know what Guess jeans were. I just shopped at Wal-Mart and Kmart and stuff like that.

I`m sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.

It`s very expensive to be me. It`s terrible the things I have to do to be me.

[To Larry King regarding her love for her second husband, J. Howard Marshall II, an octogenarian billionaire oil tycoon who died a year after they married] I wasn`t physically, "Oh, my God, you hot, hot body", you know, like that. It was just -- I loved him for so much of what he did for me and my son. I mean, I just loved him -- I`ve never had love like that before. No one has ever loved me and done things for me and respected me and didn`t care about what people said about me. I mean, he truly loved me. And I loved him for it.

I don`t have a boyfriend right now. I`m looking for anyone with a job that I don`t have to support.

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

People are just so stupid.

I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.

If I have another child, I doubt I`ll get married again. I don`t think men particularly want to be with me.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate`s name.

I don`t understand why God took him and didn`t take me.

[interview in People magazine in 2002 about the jokes made about her reality show] As long as ratings stay high, they can laugh all they want.

[on landing her first cover on Playboy magazine, March 1992] The people in [Texas] won`t believe it when these pictures of me hit the newsstands, because I was considered a goody-two-shoes nerd back in high school.

Men don`t even ask me out. I can`t remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I`m talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.

I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through.

You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are. Would he love me or the money?

Nobody has ever respected me and done things for me and loved me. So when Howard [former husband J. Howard Marshall II] came along, it was a blessing. He is the only person in my life who does not care about what other people say about me. He truly loves me and I love him for it.

For some reason people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

I`m going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

I am just so happy and thrilled and I am so glad Mr. Hefner chose me.

I don`t drink as much as I use to could.

[interview in People magazine, 1993, on her desire for stardom] I want it so bad. I`ve tried so hard my whole life. I`m kindhearted, and I give, give, give. I think maybe it`s my time to receive.

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

[ater the death of her husband, J. Howard Marshall II] All I did was eat and watch TV.