 I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant. |
| Television wasn't prestigious. |
| My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid. |
| Sirk was every woman's dream of a director. |
| Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake. |
| I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids. |
| We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning. |
| I had had no art training. |
| I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle. |
| I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford. |
| I never turned down a mother role. |
| Sinatra asked me out. |
| The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent. |
| I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture. |
| I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera. |
| I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. |
