Quotes by Dorothy Malone

• I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
• I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
• We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.
• The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.
• Television wasn't prestigious.
• Sirk was every woman's dream of a director.
• Sinatra asked me out.
• My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
• Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.
• I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.
• I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
• I never turned down a mother role.
• I had had no art training.
• I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.
• 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.