I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.

Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.

Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.

I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

Without music life is a journey through a desert.

A single idea if it is right saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

Life is scarier than death.

I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.

Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.