I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

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.

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.

I never turned down a mother role.

Jackson asked, "Where'd the water come from in your house?""A pipe." Then he explained to Jackson, "Water travels in pipes.

But do not take this responsibility lightly, my boy. The Gauntlet casts an ominous shadow.

Never lie to the one who wants you safe.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become." -Steve Jobs

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

You have a feeling of achievement when you discover a new plant, even a plant that has no use.

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.