The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.

I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.

I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering.

She thinks I'm a hussy, ' thought Scarlett. 'And perhaps she's right at that!

Dream big! There is no limit to what you can achieve.

You can't eat books, sweetheart.

When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.