I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

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

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

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

I never turned down a mother role.

Some girls had their heads in the clouds. My head was somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.

Performance releases pressure.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.

Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.