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I enjoyed the comedies with Alec Guinness, and I had a real great time with Peter Ustinov in Hotel Sahara. I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

— Yvonne De Carlo Yvonne De Carlo Reminds The World There Was Life Before Lily Munster (1987)

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I was on cloud nine all the time. After I made my hit in Salome, Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

Three Show‐Biz Girls and How They Grew (1971)

Baby, I've never been drunk in public and I never run around with men half my age. The dames I started out with are all batty today. They had their looks and nothing more and now they think they're finished.

A girl no longer, but . . . De Carlo's a beauty still (1975)

Reality to me is a home, my kids, best friends and only then a career and the limelight. I never thought like Marilyn Monroe that I was washed up when I was 35.

A girl no longer, but . . . De Carlo's a beauty still (1975)

One critic called me one of the most magnificent resources Canada has allowed to escape to the United States. Because I was born and raised in Vancouver and lived up there until I was 17.

A girl no longer, but . . . De Carlo's a beauty still (1975)

I'm from Hollywood. I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.

Three Show‐Biz Girls and How They Grew (1971)

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