Quotations and phrases - Marla Maples

Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.
-- Marla Maples

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.
-- Marla Maples

He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world.
-- Marla Maples

He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.
-- Marla Maples

I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.
-- Marla Maples

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.
-- Marla Maples

I finally said, I can't live being carried by this wake.
-- Marla Maples

I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.
-- Marla Maples

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
-- Marla Maples

I loved this man. Yes, I was young, but it was my choice. I was romanced, I had Mister Charm all over me, and it was very hard to say no.
-- Marla Maples

I met Donald Trump in '85. I ran into him several times throughout the years. We knew we had this connection, but it wasn't appropriate timing. So we'd spend a lot of time on the telephone. By '88, I knew I truly loved this guy.
-- Marla Maples

I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.
-- Marla Maples

I was fighting for a bubble of privacy. I was constantly being befriended by people who would then betray my trust.
-- Marla Maples

I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful.
-- Marla Maples

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.
-- Marla Maples

I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.
-- Marla Maples

I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
-- Marla Maples

I'm happy to have had everything healed. We're fine.
-- Marla Maples

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.
-- Marla Maples

I've always modeled myself after Ginger.
-- Marla Maples

I've made peace with the past. I have learned a lot. I know who I am. I know where my strengths lie now. I don't want to jump in too quickly.
-- Marla Maples

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
-- Marla Maples

In New York, I had not had my name in the papers. Nothing really prepares you for a city like New York, especially when you become known.
-- Marla Maples

It was like, We're not going to stop until we've shown that we can destroy this thing. So now the relationship is gone.
-- Marla Maples

It's not what people would expect, spending that many years with a billionaire. We're in a place of mutual respect now.
-- Marla Maples

My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.
-- Marla Maples

That took a big toll on our relationship-we would have a little argument: The next day there would be a story about him going out with another girl.
-- Marla Maples

The press coverage was a destructive force in my life. It was destructive to our relationship. It was like a fire.
-- Marla Maples

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
-- Marla Maples

This relationship is going to be built on trust.
-- Marla Maples

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.
-- Marla Maples

We had nine days to plan a wedding. It would just happen that fast. One day, Donald just says, I'm putting it in the paper. We're on.
-- Marla Maples

What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.
-- Marla Maples

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.
-- Marla Maples

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.
-- Marla Maples

When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground.
-- Marla Maples

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