It's very complicated because I cannot wear the same thing too often.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

Bobby Troup and I have been working together for about a year in clubs. We work in the same club.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

We've performed in South America and in Japan.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

It's very complicated because I cannot wear the same thing too often.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy.

The excess of all good things is mischievous.

God created us to thrive on encouragement from others.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended.

I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.

I think what happens when there's a scandal in your life, the things you depended on are taken away from you, and so you value what you have. I had two very nice little boys, so sweet, and a very good husband.

I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.

The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy.

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

Judo teaches us to look for the best possible course of action, whatever the individual circumstances.

Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

If you can, you must.

By all means marry if you get a good wife youll be happy. If you get a bad one youll become a philosopher.

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

If you want to change the culture you will have to start by changing the organization.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.