“I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.”

“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”

“Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.”

“In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.”

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.”

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”