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• ‟ Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

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• ‟ I was groomed as a so-called sex symbol, a rival to Marilyn Monroe, and from then on, whenever my picture appeared in paper, it was 'sex kitten,' 'sex symbol,' 'sex goddess,' 'sex pot.' I've accepted it, and I'm flattered, but in some ways, it's been a hindrance to me because I haven't been able to be taken seriously as an actress.

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• ‟ The studios always had their idea of what I was, and they'd give me the dumb-blonde roles.

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• ‟ I was always protective of Jayne. I never allowed people to talk about her behind her back because those same people would talk about me.

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• ‟ Sometimes I think I made a big mistake by not paying more attention to Prince Axel. He was looking for a wife and genuinely cared for me. Well, he had the hots for me is more like it. I would have made a great princess.

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• ‟ I met Chanel in the 1960s when I was working over in Europe. She sent me clothes all the time because I was only, like, 110.

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