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.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

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

Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.