Quotes

I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

Nobody has ever respected me and done things for me and loved me. So when Howard [former husband J. Howard Marshall II] came along, it was a blessing. He is the only person in my life who does not care about what other people say about me. He truly loves me and I love him for it.

[To Larry King regarding her love for her second husband, J. Howard Marshall II, an octogenarian billionaire oil tycoon who died a year after they married] I wasn't physically, "Oh, my God, you hot, hot body", you know, like that. It was just -- I loved him for so much of what he did for me and my son. I mean, I just loved him -- I've never had love like that before. No one has ever loved me and done things for me and respected me and didn't care about what people said about me. I mean, he truly loved me. And I loved him for it.

I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just -- there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just -- it is a Cinderella story to me.

I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Because nobody knows you.

[1994, on her son Daniel] He's seen everything -- even my videos. He just thinks, "It's mom." He's more like a father or a husband. He says, "Mom, if you don't call me by this time, I'm going to be very worried." And if I don't call him, he's at the door, shaking, crying because he's afraid that something happened to me. He's so protective.

[Interview in People magazine, 1993, on her desire for stardom] I want it so bad. I've tried so hard my whole life. I'm kind-hearted, and I give, give, give. I think maybe it's my time to receive.

[Interview in People magazine, 2002, on the jokes made about her reality show] As long as ratings stay high, they can laugh all they want.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.

[Interview in People magazine, 1993, on becoming a spokesmodel for Guess? Jeans] I finally feel like I'm becoming somebody. I really think like I can do something. I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

[1992] I didn't know what Guess jeans were. I just shopped at Wal-Mart and Kmart and stuff like that.

[on landing her first cover on Playboy magazine, March 1992] The people in Texas won't believe it when these pictures of me hit the newsstands, because I was considered a goody-two-shoes nerd back in high school.

[after the death of her husband, J. Howard Marshall II] All I did was eat junk food and watch television.

[2005, on her enormous silicone breasts] Everything I have is because of them.

Marrying into money was not a good thing to me.