I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

I never turned down a mother role.

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 the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

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

Television wasn't prestigious.

Sirk was every woman's dream of a director.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

I had had no art training.

Sinatra asked me out.

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

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

As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

So I started to learn guitar right away.

I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'

I came to Vegas because I wanted to, not because I thought it could help my career. I didn't even know they had comedy clubs here.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

When I was eight years old, I asked my mum, 'Mum, can I do two jobs?' And she was like, 'Absolutely!' 'Cause I'd like to act for 15 years and then direct for 15 years.'

I'm a competitive guy.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.

For any trade deal to move forward, there has to be agreement.

The Virgin Birth is possible if there is a God. An Omnipotent Being who can do all things and yet cannot do some things is hardly worth our attack or defence.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

The writing of a series finale is horrible.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society then it has to be wrong for everyone not just individuals but governments as well.

I hate to advocate drugs alcohol violence or insanity to anyone but theyve always worked for me.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

Jennifer Aniston is one of the most down-to-earth, low-key people I know.

I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.