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"I'm the girl who is always being discovered." - Vera Ellen

"Daintiness is very closely tied in with cleanliness." - Vera Ellen

"Dancing is like breathing—missing a day doing either is very bad." - Vera Ellen

"No amount of dialogue can express the sweet, sincere and invariably speechless emotion we call love." - Norma Talmadge

[on the type of roles she would like to play] "Women who have some definite meaning in their lives... fire in their souls and true, wholesome romance in their hearts... not the last word in nobility, nor steeped in scarlet sins, but good enough to be real." - Norma Talmadge

"Almost any girl taken from obscurity and spot-lighted, highly paid and catered to, would go haywire. Precious few have escaped the stage of distorted viewpoint, unless they had very wise management." - Olive Borden

"If I don't like a story or a part I just don't do it. But when I get something I like I work like the devil. Consequently I am accomplishing far more than I ever did before and I'm not working half as hard." - Olive Borden

"Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't." - Judy Holiday

Judy Holliday

"Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it." - Mary Astor

"Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks." - Mary Astor

"A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits." - Mary Astor

"There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?" - Mary Astor

"I am glad I went through the things I did. The first marriage, the bad-lands that followed. Everything. I had some ecstatic moments; and to me one perfect moment is worth months of pain. For after all, without pain, without the necessity to do, to achieve, to conquer, what or where can be the savor?"- Corinne Griffith

"I have had a poison in my life. A noxious sort of poison lurking in my heart and half killing all of my hopes and dreams and will-to-live. It might very well have ruined my entire life. It very nearly did. It is called an inferiority complex." Corinne Griffith

(When asked how she maintains her youthful appearance & energetic drive) "If there's a secret to it, it's working like a beaver to be happy. What I mean is I've always been interested in everything I did, or else I wouldn't do it. When you're that interested in anything, you're happy." - Constance Bennett