- "My agent said, `You aren`t good enough for movies.` I said, `You`re fired."
- "When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said `Congratulations, you have an actor!"
- "When you`re old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing."
- "If I hadn`t fought back, I might have been Gidget forever."
- "I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else`s eyes".
- (about today's young stars) "I can't even imagine the pressure these young people are under. I thought it was rough juggling a high-profile career with raising a family, but now you look at someone like Britney Spears and think, "Wow, we had it easy." When I started out, there were a few fan magazines, but there was no Entertainment Tonight, and certainly not the 24-hour media force that the Internet has become. Entire industries have been created to make money on Britney Spears, and that's grisly. I can't imagine what it's like for her children to be caught up in that gossip."
- "Whoever the next President of our country is, man or woman, it needs to be a mother. I don't think mothers are only female. I think mothering is a quality, a character trait. Mothering is about responsibility. There are plenty of men who are great, great mothers. People who care more about their children and their children's children than about getting money in their pocket are great mothers. That's how you protect your people. That's how you move into the future."
- "Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. "Oh, I'm just a mom," you hear women say. Just a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentor ship, it's inspirational, and it's our hope for the future."
- "The big issue in Gidget was my bellybutton. I could never show it. All the other girls bounced around in skimpy bikinis. Gidget's bathing suit always had to cover her bellybutton. Gidget was only half a person all fantasy and no kissing. It was a reflection of the destructive morality of the 50s and 60s, which is when I was brought up. Everybody thought that men were out to get you especially if you showed your bellybutton. And men, in turn, thought they had to get you. When young people get married thinking like that and so many did, it has to mean trouble."
- (on why she took the role of Nora Walker on "Brothers and Sisters"): "I loved what they wanted to do: they wanted to look at this big American family with a very strong father figure, a real patriarchal family, but that over time became a matriarchal family, where the women were the strong voices."
- (on filming movies while also working on "Brothers and Sisters"): "You know, the truth of the matter is, we have so much little time off. I feel like: "Please God, don't let anything come my way!" We worked last year 10 months straight. I think television right now is exploring more relationships and people things than film is. I don't really have a desire to stand there and not be acting."
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