I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

I never turned down a mother role.

Your healthy self-esteem is one of the most significant and powerful drivers in your life. It drives your perceptions, attitudes, opinions, relationships, communications, and your decisions.

I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even placed.

People have good and bad days.

Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.

Experience is the only teacher we have.