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.

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.

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.

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

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

A victorious mentality is what differentiates us from the people of the world

Margaret looked at the ring on her finger. "Gran gave me this before we boarded the ship. It's the most special thing in the world to me. I'll never take it off, Hanna. No matter how hungry I am.

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'

Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.

I'm better at accepting the people who don't have nice things to say about me anonymously, but until you've experienced it, you don't understand how much it can affect you and mess with your mind.