Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.