You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

I must have a drink of breakfast.