During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.

I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.

Girls can do everything men can do...just backwards and in heels

I've got enough nerve to do anything!

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.