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

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.

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.

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

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.

I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned.

Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

I wish to die painting.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!

Friends should be preferred to kings.