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
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.
able hollywood aviation
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.
thinking add way
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.
together going-away want
I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.
confidence tough losing
As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
san-francisco perfect would-be
I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.
stars hollywood feels
I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.
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.
people special rotting
The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.
pain acting fame
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
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.
country nice thinking
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.
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.