For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me

In real life I'm a poor dressmaker and a terrible cook, anything in fact but the perfect wife.

I'm not a career woman.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies

I don't like to fight.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin

What's the point of living if you don't feel alive?

A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

But in the earlier hours, or so I have read, they still have got their daylight minds. It takes the midnight mind to do the black deed to the black man.

Even a fool is wise after an event.

The coop is guarded from the inside.

I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .