I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.

All of us from The Waltons still love each other. I think were closer than some real families.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.