People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

If I get married, I want to be very married.