Angie Dickinson

“When you're a TV star, you pretty much set the tone, and on 'Police Woman,' we goofed around all the time.”

“My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.”

“I used to learn my lines on the toilet, in the car, at dinner.”

“There was this one movie I really wanted to do, with Gregory Peck, 'Captain Newman, M.D.,' and Universal said, 'Well, if you want that, you're going to have to sign a seven-year contract.' And I'd already been through that. But I needed it, so I signed.”

“There's a difference between a Hollywood wife and a Hollywood woman. I don't count. I worked.”

“If you're only trading on looks and your body, that's only going to go so far. But that was never my bag. I was always about the whole package.”

“I'm hard to imitate because I'm not gifted enough.”

“You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age. If the part requires somebody a little younger or older, I can probably get away with that.”

“I never really felt like a movie star until 'Police Woman.'”

“Anybody can be a drummer.”

“I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.”

“I was popular in high school. I smiled, and I laughed, and I talked, and I wasn't bad-looking, but I was never considered beautiful - never, ever.”

“Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.”

“I think it was sexier when you didn't have to take it all off.”

“My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.”

“I was never in the top category of anything. I was never on people's lists. I was never the potential anything!”

“When I completely submerge my sensuality or my sexuality, I'm not very interesting.”

“My mother raised three girls, really, pretty much on her own, and she didn't have time for play or conversation or whatever. She had to take care of a house, a business, and three kids.”

“In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!”

“I remember a Humphrey Bogart movie where he was a reporter, so I wanted to be a reporter, and then he was a parachutist, and I wanted to be a parachutist.”