In real life I'm a poor dressmaker and a terrible cook, anything in fact but the perfect wife.

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

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 don't like to fight.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.

People who are humble don't talk too much; they listen.

I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.

If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.

When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!