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Books written by actresses are for the birds. Besides what would I write?...that somebody was looking for an Italian type to play the ingenue in a film and I might do?
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- If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.
- It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
- It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.