I'm not a career woman.

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

[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.

Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.

One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker, Wyatt mused, was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.

If you believe that you're doing will positive results, it will - even if it's not immediately obvious.

You can talk so much. The proof is how you compete to the guy next to you and if a guy makes a mistake, you've got to be there to pick him up and not put him down.

Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

He sparked on his body that reflect like mini mirrors of diamond

Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.