identity Quotes

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.