No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.