I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.