I don't like to fight.

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'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

I live each day with joyful hopes.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

You are mine. Do you hear me? You are mine, Della Sloane. I will take care of you. Nothing is taking you away from me. Nothing.

I eat like a maniac when I am sick. My attitude is if I am going to die anyway in the next 24-48 hours, I mind as well live it up.

San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, “I think I missed you before I met you even.

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

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