“I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.”

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don’t consider myself a dull subject.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce … some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Most girls don’t know what to do with what they’ve got.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don’t believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

We live to love you more each day.

You gotta have a body.

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee – a lot more.

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

I’ll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.

When I’m 100 I’ll still be doing pin-ups

I don’t particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.

I do know that God created us equal and we’re not living up to it.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

True happiness is impossible without solitude.

Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully – through me, a little – the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.

Every moment of happiness was just a distraction from myself.