Quotes

You get tough in this business, until you get big enough to hire people to get tough for you. Then you can sit back and be a lady.

In so many ways I think it's a bore to be sorry you were a child actor - so many people feel sorry for you automatically. At the time, I wasn't aware of the things I missed, so why should I think of them in retrospect? Everybody misses something or other.

I felt a little funny when we were going to do the bed scene, all four of us, in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). I'm open to suggestions, I'm no prude, but four is a crowd in my book. Fortunately, Dyan Cannon was there. The thought of another woman being in there in the bed helped get me through it. It's not like it sounds. It's just that I don't think I could have done it if it had been me and three men.

[on being a child actor] I spent practically all my time in the company of adults. I was very withdrawn, very shy, I did what I was told and I tried not to disappoint anybody. I knew I had a duty to perform, and I was trained to follow orders.

[shortly before her death] You know what I want? I want yesterday.

[on Elvis Presley] There was nothing serious between Elvis and me, nothing at all.

I've always been terrified, still am, of water -- dark water, sea water, or, you know, river water.

[on Marilyn Monroe] When you look at Marilyn on the screen, you don't want anything bad to happen to her. You really care that she should be all right... happy.

[on remarrying Robert Wagner] Sometimes, it's better to have the devil you know than the devil you don't.

My life has been sort of reversed. I was working when other girls were going to school and when other women were reaching the age when they wanted careers, I was most interested in staying home.

If it weren't for analysis, I'd probably be dead.

[on marijuana] We've tried it here and there. Definitely I think one's own senses are much preferable, and everything is more heightened when you have a natural sense of yourself. I mean there's nothing more terrific than the feeling of your own emotions and everything being really alert, not dulled by some weed or pill.

I think there's a big difference between taking one Seconal at night to go to sleep, and abusing drugs. I mean, first of all, it was prescribed for me by my doctor. And I never took more than that. I've never been on drugs in my life.

I hate the ocean, I hate the water. I can't swim and I don't like to be around it.