“I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations t...” — Kim Novak Quote

“I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.”

“Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.”

“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.”

“I always kept my expectations in life very tame.”

“By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.”

“The good thing about my father was that he always told me, 'You don't have to worry about living up to me, living up to my expectations.' My dad was just dad to me.”