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“It was a tool for me. I could express what I was feeling, whether it's good feelings or bad feelings. In that case it was bad feelings. But it was like all of a sudden, 'Who cares what Donald Trump or anyone else thinks of you?'”

Kim Novak

Source: CBS Sunday Morning interview (2020)
Context: Answering the question "What did painting do for you after you came home from the Oscars?"

“You know, I wasn't gonna wait around. And I thought, 'You know, what I'd like to do if I have my choice, I wanna go to Big Sur and go back to painting.'”

Kim Novak

For better or worse, I left Hollywood. I let in very few people in my life, and I got involved with animals in my life. And not just cats and dogs. I had to learn who I was again through animals, because animals know who you really are.
Source: CBS Sunday Morning interview (2020)
Context: On leaving Hollywood in the 1960s

“[Vertigo] was before its time, really. I was not appreciated in my time. I think I'm appreciated more now. I'm glad to know that I'm still around to know that I'm more appreciated now.”

Kim Novak

“I got so burned out on that picture that I wanted to leave the business, but then if you wait long enough you think, "Oh, I miss certain things."”

Kim Novak

The making of a movie is wonderful. What's difficult is afterward when you have to go around and try to sell it. The actual filming, when you have a good script—which isn't often—nothing beats it.
Source: "As quoted in Rustic Oregon life is a real picnic for Kim Novak" by Bob Thomas, Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 14 May 2004 https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/movies/article/Rustic-Oregon-life-is-a-real-picnic-for-Kim-Novak-1144800.php