We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

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.

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.

I never turned down a mother role.

For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.

Both life and work were a great deal more rewarding when you didn't take them seriously.

We do tend to overreact when we feel threatened. Men, I mean.

It is highly impossible for you to be successful at what you don’t love. Do what you love and love what you do.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.

We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

You have the Republican establishment that is moving into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. What's happening in this election is sort of proof of principle.

I want to do a record with Monica Lewinsky.