Kim Novak

I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice. ↗

— Kim Novak

#anyway #around #country #forgot #friends

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 was always opinionated. ↗

— Kim Novak

#i #opinionated

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 could just get really lost in that kind of image. ↗

— Kim Novak

#could #get #glamorous #i #image

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

— Kim Novak

#means #movie #nothing #out

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

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

— Kim Novak

#anything #complain #either #hand #hitchcock

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 up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all. ↗

— Kim Novak

#add #alfred #alfred hitchcock #clues #ends