I never turned down a mother role.

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

Television wasn’t prestigious.

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

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

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

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

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

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

We had cocktail parties and I’d stay up until 5 in the morning.

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

Sinatra asked me out.

I never turned down a mother role.

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

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

Sirk was every woman’s dream of a director.

I had had no art training.