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1. My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don’t want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I’m used to having. That’s far more important to me than a wrinkle or two.
2. I drew a line for myself. I never dated anyone that could hire me when I was first in Hollywood, and I think that kept me focused on what I was there to do and how I wanted to go about it. I took it a step at a time.
3. I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it’s very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.
4. I was the singing voice of a cartoon character. I did dog food commercials. I did a lot of commercials, actually, and helped pay my rent and my classes. Then I’d get one good line or two good scenes. I was building my career and building my own experience and learning technically what it was like to be on a set and all of those things.
5. I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life.
6. I don’t think people will ever forget I was an ‘Angel’, anymore than they’ll forget Sally Field was ‘The Flying Nun.’
7. I always wanted to be tall, but I’m not, OK?
8. Nobody just said, ‘Here, be a star!’ I’ve joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.
9. You have to make peace with life.
10. The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we’re willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic.
11. T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character pieces. Everything is so hard-edged in features.
12. I’m mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.
13. Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.
14. I walk four miles three or four times a week.
15. If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, ‘Good!’
16. My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I’m a repair chick.
17. As you get older, you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better.
18. I only had one focus and one direction, and I knew where my spirit and heart lived, and it was in singing and dancing and acting, being that. I know a lot of young people dream that, but it’s good that it worked out for me because it was all I ever wanted to do.
19. There were nine children in my father’s family and eight in my mother’s. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.
20. You think you’re in control, and you’re trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You’re frustrated, and you realize that you’re not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God.