I’ve never met an animal I didn’t like, and I can’t say the same thing about people.
If it’s true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
You haven’t lived until you’ve lived with a cat.
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn’t meant to be, and we have no right to do it.
I’ve been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls – you know, those dolls you could push down and they’d come back up? I’ve always been like that. I’ve always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
It has been said that the body is like an automobile – it’s yours, but it isn’t you.
When I see Liz Taylor with those Harry Winston boulders hanging from her neck I get nauseated. Not figuratively, but nauseated! All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.
I always felt that making a living wasn’t the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.
If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I’d sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.
I couldn’t walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
I’ve just always loved animals.
I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
It’s quite an experience to have filming done in your house. When they come in, they photograph every piece of furniture and where it is so they can get them back exactly where you had them. You’d never know they’d been here.
A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.