As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.

For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

All of us from The Waltons still love each other. I think were closer than some real families.

I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.

I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.