The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief.
If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.
Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me.
My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.
The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds.
I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true.
I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.
It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.
Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.