Personally, I think if a women hasn`t met the right man by the time she`s 24, she may be lucky

I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.

When you`re young, you just go banging about, but you`re more sensitive as you grow older.

Personally, I think if a woman hasn`t met the right man by the time she`s 24, she may be lucky.

[speaking in 1969] When I was under contract to MGM, with people like poor Robert Taylor and so many others, the cinema`s job was solely entertainment. It filled a public need then. Now the cinema serves so many other purposes; it functions as psychiatrist, politician, message-maker, money maker and, incidentally, entertainer. But it`s no good regretting that things are different. Times have to change.

I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.

I`m almost hysterical at the thought of making people cry with joy 30-odd years after Cary [Grant] and I did our stuff. I`ve certainly shed tears at "An Affair to Remember", even though I know all the tricks of movie magic that went into it. Believe me, Cary and I knew how to kiss. When we did a love scene, we may not have been trying to swallow each other but, for those brief moments, we just loved each other.

Personally, I think if a women hasn`t met the right man by the time she`s 24, she may be lucky.

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

I`d rather drop dead in my tracks one day than end up in a wheelchair in some nursing home watching interminable replays of The King and I.

It had to have rocks in the distance, so the water could strike the boulders and shoot upward -- all very symbolic. The scene turned out to be deeply affecting on film, but, God, it was no fun to shoot. We had to time it for the waves, so that at just the right moment a big one would come up and wash over us. Most of the waves came up only to our feet, but we needed one that would come up all the way. We were like surfers, waiting for the perfect waves. Between each take, we had to do a total cleanup. When it was all over, we had four tons of grit in our mouths--and other places. -- DK, referring to her famous romantic beach scene with Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity"

[on Elia Kazan] As you know, people will give their right arm, literally, and most of their blood to work with him. He`s got a kind of incredible instinct with people. He`s so in sympathy with all the fears and frights of actors, through having done it himself. And he`s got a personal magic that gets within your very being.

I don`t think anyone knew I could act until a put on a bathing suit. -- DK, referring to her role in "From Here to Eternity"

I was mad about ballet, but I grew too tall, and when I eventually realized I`d never become the second Margot Fonteyn, I auditioned for a play instead and got the part.

Years from now, when you talk about this -- and you will -- be kind. --DK, her famous last line as she is about to bed a 17-year-old schoolboy in the play and film version of "Tea and Sympathy"

[On Alan Ladd] He was awfully good in putting across what he had, in looks and in manner; he had something very attractive -- a definite film personality which he had worked very hard to perfect.

He`s a warm, kind-hearted, loving, generous, intellectual genius. [On John Wayne]

When You`re young, you just go banging about, but you`re more sensitive as you grow older. You have higher standards of what`s really good; you`re fearful that you wont live up to what`s expected of you.

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

I came over here [Hollywood] to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative.

All the most successful people these seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.