Kim Novak
Kim Novak
Marilyn Pauline Novak, known professionally as Kim Novak, is an American retired film and television actress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth13 February 1933
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
acting gratified interest touch
What I always try to do in my acting is to communicate with people, to touch them, so I am especially gratified by everyone's interest in Vertigo.
harry hollywood
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.
meant took
And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.
want needs ifs
If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.
break-up deception break-out
I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.
war thinking tree
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.
beautiful sexy lost-friendship
If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get really lost in that kind of image.
pain acting fame
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
confidence tough losing
As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
beautiful rights lovely
I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.
names office feelings
The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
names matter wells
Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.
hands say-anything complaining
So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.
opinionated
I was always opinionated.