I never turned down a mother role.

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.

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.

It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.

It’s ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!

Some people say it's easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory.

Dare to learn.Dare to relearn.Dare to outlearn.

How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.