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.

If you're not excited by it, why do you do it?

I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.

We’re only here briefly. And while I’m here I want to allow myself joy.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

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

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

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.

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

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.

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

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.

I was always opinionated.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.