I'd just as soon stay home and raise 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.

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

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.

We were so little when you took away all our sins.

There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

Fasting for your marriage can change your marriage

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.