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~ Lana Turner Quote
Whoever started the idea that we (stars) are public property? We give the public performances, glamour, and a dream. But we are all human beings, and we should have moments that are our own. If I were just an ordinary working girl and someone asked me some of the questions I've been asked, I'd say, 'Get lost, Buster!' But I just take a deep breath and try to answer. I resent stupid questions, but I can't do anything about the Lana Turner image? I've lived with it too long.
~ Lana Turner Quote
All those years that my image on the screen was sex goddess-well that makes me laugh. Sex was never important to me. I'm sorry if that disappoints you, but it's true. Romance, yes. Romance was very important. But I never liked being rushed into bed, and I never allowed it. I'd put it off as long as I could and I gave in only when I was in love, or thought I was. It was always the courtship, the cuddling, and the closeness that I cared about, never the act of sex itself-with some exceptions of course. I'm not masquerading as a prude , but I've always been portrayed as a sexy woman, and that's wrong. Sensuous, yes. When I'm involved with someone I care for deeply, I can feel sensual. But that's a private matter.
~ Lana Turner Quote
When I awoke in the morning, my mother and Julia Hislop were whispering in a corner. They didn't have to tell me why. I already knew that my father was dead. And when the feeling of peace wore off, the surprise at having known intensified my sense of loss and sorrow. Although I was only nine, I could imagine what death meant. I knew he was gone forever.
~ Lana Turner Quote
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
~ Lana Turner Quote
It wasn't that I fell in love with Artie that night. I wasn't even physically attracted. But here was a wonderfully intelligent man, far more talented and famous than Greg (fyi: Greg Bautzer was a lawyer she had been seeing) would ever be, who took me seriously. And underneath it all I can see, looking back, was the desire to get even with Greg.
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I'd never seen anyone so beautiful and elegant, except at a distance. Although she had a delicious sense of humor, she still occupied a pedestal, and I was quite in awe of her. Someday, I told myself, I would be like her.
~ Lana Turner Quote
I planned on having one husband and seven children but it turned out the other way around.
~ Lana Turner Quote
I never dated Mickey Rooney, that adorable nut. He had unmistakable talent, and he knew he was a star.
~ Lana Turner Quote
After the ceremony we went out to an all-night diner for coffee. Suddenly I realized that my mother had no idea where I was. The taxi drove us to the telegraph office, and I wrote out a message: Got Married In Las Vegas. Call You Later. Love, Lana.
~ Lana Turner Quote
The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now. It never did, really. It was romance I wanted, kisses and candlelight, that sort of thing. I never did dig sex very much.
~ Lana Turner Quote
My career was a hollow success, a tissue of fantasies on film. Cheryl loved my mother, and they were both comfortably endowed in my will. I had never before felt or believed I could be in such a dark hole mentally, physically, and worst of all spiritually. All the good in my life-my mother, my child, my work, my friends-was blotted out by the dead feeling that nothing really mattered. I hadn't heard that suicide was a cry for help. To me it meant putting a big stop to the pain and anguish. There was none of that I'll show them. Boy they'll miss me when I'm gone nonsense. I wasn't trying to hurt anyone. I was aware that everyone would go on and survive, but I knew I definitely could not. I wanted out.
~ Lana Turner Quote
Left to my own devices, I'd starve to death-- I can't boil water.
~ Lana Turner Quote
Never look back is my philosophy.
~ Lana Turner Quote
Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.
~ Lana Turner Quote