On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.
Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.
When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.
I feel I have this joy in my heart. I just want to make people feel.
When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.
It's nice to play a three-dimensional person every once in a while for a change of pace.
I don't drink.
Music ignited a fiery, pent-up passion inside Elvis and inside me. It was an odd, embarrassing, funny, inspiring, and wonderful sensation.
My father was proud that people thought I was a good actress. I'm the only child. And daddy's girl.
I'm a very happy person.
I've had motorcycle accidents!
I work out three times a week with a trainer.
Whenever I get a chance to perform for the troops, that makes me feel that I'm really doing something. That's what I want.
When you've got that performing bug, there's no way that you can tear it out. It's there. When you go out on stage, and that first wave of applause comes, you just go, 'Wow.'
I always think that age is a natural progression, and I'm ready for it. Whatever. I'm going to be the best 85-year-old that I can be if I'm still around.
Performing is my passion.
I always went to Sunday school, sang in the choir.
I've always been extremely puritanical.
I'm the only one of all my friends that doesn't cook. But I don't cook, and I don't care.
I'm always a different person when I get up and perform because then I don't have to be nervous. I don't have to be myself.