My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

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.

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

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.

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.

I am just as human as the man.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?

The present moment is creative creating with an unheard-of intensity.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.