I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

I am the girl who everyone said was never going anywhere. I guess I shocked a few people.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.

It’s not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It’s not the end-all, be-all of my life.

At first all I wanted to be was famous; then I realized that fame had nothing to do with talent. I felt that I didn't do anything quite well enough, that I was one of those people who was famous but not very talented. So I said, okay, I'll be the Dinah Shore of the Seventies, on TV all the time but nobody quite knows why.