I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.