Kim Novak

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

— Kim Novak

I was always opinionated.

— Kim Novak

I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.

— Kim Novak

If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

— Kim Novak

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

— Kim Novak

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

— Kim Novak

It means nothing if the movie doesn't get out there.

— Kim Novak

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

— Kim Novak

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very…

— Kim Novak

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

— Kim Novak

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know…

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Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a…

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And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there,…

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I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't…

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So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.

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My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him…

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Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of…

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I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again…

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The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people…

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The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name.…

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The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees.…

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I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path…

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If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all…

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I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another…

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I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that…

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The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that…

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I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

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I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become…

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My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of…

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I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol,…

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I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be…

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