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

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.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.

Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me.

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

I've always ridden horses.

My two great loves are music and horses.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.

You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

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