The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!

I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

The difference between companies that make $100, 000 vs those that make $1bn dollars within the same industry is paying attention to detail.

For what religion has never had sects? Rest assured, Extremism is always the derrière.

You know your life is completely screwed up when you have to look up the mythological figures who talk to you in the bathroom mirror.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

You probably would not choose to dine at a restaurant whose chef always ate elsewhere. I do eat my own cooking, and I don't "dine out" when it comes to investing.