I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.

I went to the school of hard knocks.

Manic depressive is a disease.

Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.

I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

I was just like Jennifer Aniston with Brad Pitt when he fell in love with Angelina Jolie.

I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.

My first husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor.

I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'

I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.

It took, like, 30 years for Carrie to be really happy with me. I don't know what the problem ever was. I've had to work at it.

I want happiness for my daughter - I want Carrie to be happy.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.

I was just a beginner, and she and I were not in any manner alike, but we got along very well because I was in awe of going to school with Elizabeth Taylor.

I'm very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!

My son, Todd Fisher- he has been such a wonderful son and brother.

I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.

I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.

All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on 'Molly Brown.'

Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

My marriages have been one of the greatest voids in my life.

I have very poor taste in men, and I married all the wrong men.

The truth is I loved an audience.

I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.

Gene Kelly was a little tough, and he used to yell at me on the set.

Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.

Everyone I dated was gay.

So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.

We were very poor, and I entered a talent contest as a young teenager because if you entered, even if you didn't win, they gave you a free blouse.

I loved to party with the Rat Pack; they were so much fun.

That's my business, show business.

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

Life is just too short to count calories forever!

My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?

Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

I look great because I'm happy.