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.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

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.

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.

Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?

No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.

I've just always loved animals.