Kim Novak Quotes

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• For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well,…
• Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think…
• I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel…
• I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn…
• I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not…
• If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You…
• 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 friends. I even…
• I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would…
• Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of…
• I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
• I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do…
• The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add…
• I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a…
• As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
• I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I…
• I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.
• I was always opinionated.
• So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.
• Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.
• I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.

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