It's important that you take care of yourself and blow off steam in the right way. Don't let some woman walk in and say, "hey, goodbye!" and take your man. Kill her if you can! I'm only kidding.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.