[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 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

I'm not a career woman.

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.

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?”“Are you calling me stupid?”“Yes, but in a more poetic way!”“Well, here’s a poem for you. Get lost!

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

Do not allow any discouragement in your soul.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.