#i

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

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life. ↗

— John Oates

#i #life #my life #stopped #tomorrow

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

The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive. ↗

— Kim Novak

#always #civil #civil war #history #i

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

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere. ↗

— Kim Novak

#begun #cans #cared #could #did

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most. ↗

— Kim Novak

#every #most #only #probably #scene

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name. ↗

— Kim Novak

#i #matter #name #polish #well