Television wasn't prestigious.

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.

The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

Kissing babies and hugging fat girls.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!