- Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.
- I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.
- If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commercial insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.
- What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.
- I hope more people decide to become organ donors.
- When you handle yourself, use your head. When you handle others, use your heart.
- [on her thoughts about the Vietnam war for an 1967 interview] I'd been overwhelmed by hopeless despair over the war, having two sons who might have to go to Vietnam to fight in a war I don't believe in. Then one night at a rally for Eugene McCarthy, a mike was put in front of me unexpectedly, and I heard myself speaking what I thought.
- [on failing to break out of being typecasted in purity roles even with the best supporting actress academy award in From Here to Eternity] The whole point about Alma was she was a prostitute who didn't look like one. Try telling that to the studios. All the Oscar brought me was more bland Goody-Two-Shoes parts.
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