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

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

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.

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

Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?

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.

I haven’t had everything from life. I’ve had too much.