To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

I don't love acting; I love chocolate.

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.

A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.

How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.