Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

I don't even like parties.

I don't know if I want to get married again.

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

I like Michael Buble.

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

I never retired.

I rented a place that I could have dogs - not in my house. I rented a big place. And I was able to have the SPCA every end of the week bring many, many dogs to me. They all were in nice places, clean, everything was fine. I took good care of them. And so many people called.

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.

I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky.

I've just always loved animals.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

If I'd find a dog, I'd try to find the owner, of course, but it was mine! I just can't live without them; I love them so much. I have cats, too. People call me all the time and say, 'We know of a couple of cats people don't care for,' and I say, 'Bring them!' That's it - two words. I'm always open for that.

If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked 'Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.'

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know youll grow out of it.

It was the only ambition I ever had not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there!

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

When you look back at your body of work, no matter what your career path, by the time you hang 'em up, if you can say, 'This place is in better shape than when I started,' then you did good.

People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.

I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.

To change the action, change thoughts first.

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.

In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.

Mind moves matter.

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

Shooting a movie isn't good for a sleep disorder.

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?

Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

Sometimes the only way to discover who we are is by figuring out who we are not.

I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

Dont marry a man unless you would be proud to have a son exactly like him.