Quotes

I don't know what I am doing from one moment to the next. I like that not knowing because it's always a surprise. You don't know what's around the corner, you know what role am I going to play next and who am I going to be working with. It's like opening a present.

I played the Marilyn Monroe role of "Loco" in How to Marry a Millionaire (1957), though I didn't consider myself as that kind of actress, I approached the role more as a character.

Every New Year's I resolve to have a better year than I had before.

If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen.

Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

I've never stopped working. If you're active, you can appreciate what you did in the past, you don't feel like it's gone.

Work makes me feel productive, as though I'm contributing something. I like being productive and feeling productive.

Advice to present-day actors linked to a particular role: I would embrace the character, because it won't do any good if you don't. And another thing: Don't whine or talk trash about it. I don't think you ever demean to your public what you've done. You're insulting them if you demean your work.

On Jeannie: She's very easy to live with. Actually I think I'm more restricted by her now than when she was on the air, or 20 years after. I was just so busy.

[on her son's addiction to drugs, drug rehabilitation, and his death from heroin overdose] He won a lot of battles, but he lost his personal war.

[The advice she's given towards parents after her son died from a heroin overdose] I'm telling them, 'talk to someone who has been through this, and seek help for your child right away'. If you treat this disease early, you can stop it.

[on Jeannie's pink outfit and how the NBC executives forbid her navel from being exposed] They became very strict about the navel...very strict about the pantaloons. They had to be very shadowed so you couldn't see my legs.

[on 'I Dream of Jeannie...Fifteen Years Later'] Unfortunately, we couldn't get Larry, because by then he was doing Dallas, and he was working very hard and didn't want to do a movie plus his Dallas schedule. We were lucky to have Wayne Rogers as the master. The film was very good, but not the same, because he's different. I mean, we're all so unique and individual, so it was different. And Wayne brought a different texture and had a little more of an edge than Larry. For me, it was intimidating, because it had been so long and I was older. But overall it was well received.