I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.

A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.

I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.

if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.

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.

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.

I don't even like parties.