Dorothy Malone

“I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.”

“I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.”

“My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.”

“I never turned down a mother role.”

“I had had no art training.”

“Sinatra asked me out.”

“I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.”

“I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.”

“I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.”

“I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.”

“I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.”

“Sirk was every woman's dream of a director.”

“Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.”

“Television wasn't prestigious.”

“The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.”

“We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.”