I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater...

When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was...

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

I’m an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

I’ve got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it’s not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I’m trying to sort things out, so I can...

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

I can’t believe how blessed I am! I’m married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I’m deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can...

I’ve experienced several different healing methodologies over the years – counseling, self-help seminars, and I’ve read a lot – but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

I don’t care what people’s myths are about me.

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don’t know if that would happen today.

Shirley MacLaine said, You’re so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn’t hear, I couldn’t see. I thought I was going to pass out.

I’m not a sun person.

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

If I had to choose, I’d choose my friends over my career.

I wouldn’t have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that’s okay.

All men are difficult.

I read. It’s also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at...

There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.

So remaking a movie like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a really positive statement and I’m so happy I made it in light of what happened after we made it.

I was raised Catholic and I’m Presbyterian now, but I’ve always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It’s fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves...

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn’t get it up, but I still think there’s merit in that.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his...

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Yes, I do get recognized in public. It’s pretty nice.

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.

I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I’ve never gotten so many work offers. It’s so exciting, this feeling of a...

I’m just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie,he was worth his weight in gold.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

I was willing to check out what was happening in the world of feature films and primetime television. I had gotten new pictures made.

One man is not enough.

I don’t know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I’m just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

It was so satisfying for me-a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!