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

— Kim Novak

#easier #else #go #go away #i

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 all questions should be answered. ↗

— Kim Novak

#answer #answered #answers #bring #every

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 never stand up for her rights. ↗

— Kim Novak

#being #enough #gentle #her #human

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

— Kim Novak

#acting #fame #i #loved #meaning

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 Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that. ↗

— Kim Novak

#because #expectations #free #get #helpful

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 matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people. ↗

— Kim Novak

#felt #find #hard #i #i tried

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 thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely. ↗

— Kim Novak

#definitely #each #give #give me #going

My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy. ↗

— Kim Novak

#best time #bring #crazy #day #decided

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me. ↗

— Kim Novak

#direction #expected #felt #go #i

The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe. ↗

— Kim Novak

#along #because #called #changed #chosen