Sinatra asked me out.

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.

Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.

The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.

Unfair and unkind behavior in exchange for your loving efforts is the rule rather than the exception.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy.

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'

Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.

Listen to me: Leek is a vegetable. It can be the center of a dish.

While we share the same set of values, we can - and do - have different business interests. Dad has been there to give me career advice along the way, but he has always let me call the play.

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.

The noble soul has reverence for itself.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'