"I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle."

"I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera."

"I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford."

"Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake."

"I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture."

"Sirk was every woman's dream of a director."

"I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton."

"I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids."

"I had had no art training."

"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

"Television wasn't prestigious."

"I never turned down a mother role."