Barbara Payton > Quotes

“I was lost... lost in a practical world... an ornament with a heart.”
― Barbara Payton, I Am Not Ashamed

“Panicsville again.”
― Barbara Payton, I Am Not Ashamed

“I had a body when I was a young kid that raised temperatures wherever I went. Today I have three long knife wounds on my solid frame”
― Barbara Payton, I Am Not Ashamed

“To hell with it all—destroy, kill, be violent and wipe out everything—all these foolish people who live and die to no purpose.”
― Barbara Payton, I Am Not Ashamed

“But I have always, all my life attracted the unusual. Nothing ever could go smoothly for me.”
― Barbara Payton, I Am Not Ashamed

“But the career virus is virulent. Like TB you can arrest it but you never can cure it. And worse, it becomes more active each time it infects.”
― Barbara Payton, I Am Not Ashamed

“If you make a man less a man it’s the worst
thing you can do to him. And that’s what I did.”
― Barbara Payton, I Am Not Ashamed

“Hustling is a creeping thing, a disease that comes from nowhere and you don’t know you have it until you study it carefully.”
― Barbara Payton, I Am Not Ashamed

“I’ve been living.
Don’t judge me too harshly for living.”
― Barbara Payton, I Am Not Ashamed

“I know you won’t or can’t understand this but believe me if I didn’t give in to my little whims, I’d die. That’s the kind of cat I am.”
― Barbara Payton, I Am Not Ashamed

“But when you’re an actress you’re an actress. It’s a disease. You just rebel against doing anything else.”
― Barbara Payton, I Am Not Ashamed