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Eva Gabor: The only thing you have to know are your words.
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Eva Gabor: It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.
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Eva Gabor: It's an amazing psychological thing for me, going back to where my stage career started. I love it, but I'm not crazy about the dressing rooms.
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Eva Gabor: It is no use. I can't be artistically inactive.
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Eva Gabor: I refused to put anything ahead of my marriage.
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Eva Gabor: I never want to see a real diamond again.
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Eva Gabor: I had already met John, and he kept pestering me, so I married him. And here I was going with Tyrone Power at the same time.
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Eva Gabor: I had a flop on Broadway, so I decided to marry as a balm for my hurt feelings.
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Eva Gabor: I found myself staring back into the mirror at unhappiness.
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Eva Gabor: I don't just sit around taking bubble baths.
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Eva Gabor: I wanted to be an actress more than anything in the world. Not even Charles understood. He was literally dying when I left him.
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Eva Gabor: I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.
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Eva Gabor: There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.
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Eva Gabor: When Lisa wore jeans, she made sure she had real diamonds to compensate.
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Eva Gabor: I've been trying to find out from a psychologist why I have this need to work so hard.
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Eva Gabor: If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
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Eva Gabor: I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
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Eva Gabor: I love the fast lane.
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Eva Gabor: Sometimes I will play tennis for three hours at a time, then swim, and finally will work out in the gym for several hours. All of this is very, very hard work.
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Eva Gabor: The whole process I must go through before going out makes it a terror just to go out to dinner.
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Eva Gabor: There I was, the girl who learned to worry about 50 cents, suddenly the wife of a man to whom small change was a petty annoyance.
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Eva Gabor: I was born a Hungarian, but I have traveled so much that my accent is now cosmopolitan.
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Eva Gabor: The ratings surveys showed that Lisa's ambience fascinated the viewers.
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Eva Gabor: The first time I ever did a television show, the producers had an actress standing by in case I blew up or refused to go on.
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Eva Gabor: I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.
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Eva Gabor: I was out to destroy that image, and Green Acres gave me the chance to do it.
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Eva Gabor: Nobody, and I mean nobody, is going to force their way into my life.
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Eva Gabor: I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.
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Eva Gabor: I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
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Eva Gabor: I was successful in psyching out Lisa's character because she was a lot like me.
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Eva Gabor: I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
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Eva Gabor: I knew exactly how the fox feels when he hears the baying of the hound.
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Eva Gabor: I don't care what it looks like. I'm not here waiting for the notices. I'm here because I'm hungry.
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Eva Gabor: I do not go around taking anyone's man. I am much too spoiled.
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Eva Gabor: I can remember having only 30 cents in my pocketbook and a husband to support.
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Eva Gabor: I already knew about the scads of money to be made in the television medium.
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Eva Gabor: Fans, after all, are an actor's life blood.
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Eva Gabor: Everyone laughed at me and said, Why do you want to work, because now you could buy the studio?
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Eva Gabor: Even though the letters became more and more familiar, I treated them as a joke. Fans can be very, very peculiar.
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Eva Gabor: East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.
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Eva Gabor: As happy as I was to get the part, my happy marriage was the most important thing in my life. Now I would have to leave him alone at least five days a week.
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Eva Gabor: After we were married for one minute, I wanted to leave him.
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Eva Gabor: After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?
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Eva Gabor: Acting to me isn't just a TV series, a talk show, or a play.
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Eva Gabor: A love pirate? I am no love pirate! What do they mean by that?
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Eva Gabor: Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.
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Eva Gabor: I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!
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Eva Gabor: Love is a game that two can play and both win.
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Eva: I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.