[on her daughter Schuyler Fisk becoming an actress] The business has been good to me. I would be a hypocrite if I tried to convince her not to do this.
[Parade magazine, April 1, 2001] I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
Month: December 2016
Died Today (December 25th): Dean Martin (1917–1995)
Someone else, would have laid around, feeling sorry for himself, for a year. But Duke, he just doesn’t know, how to be sick … he’s recuperating the hard way. He’s two loud speaking guys in one. Me, when people see me, they sometimes say, ‘Oh, there goes Perry Como.’ But there’s only one ‘John Wayne’, and nobody makes any mistakes about that. – On The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
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