“Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.”

“When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked 'Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.'”

“The movies I like watching the most are these sort of cinema verite, handheld films where you really get gritty with people. But I also have this strange affinity for old Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies and things that sort of pop out where you see the frames, where you have these 2D animation moments and split-screens and things like that.”

“I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.”

“Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.”

“Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.”

“It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.”

“If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.”

“I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.”

“Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.”

“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”