"You get tough in this business, until you get big enough to hire people to get tough for you. Then you can sit back and be a lady."

"In so many ways I think it's a bore to be sorry you were a child actor - so many people feel sorry for you automatically. At the time I wasn't aware of the things I missed so why should I think of them in retrospect? Everybody misses something or other." (1961)

"I felt a little funny when we were going to do the bed scene, all four of us, in 'Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice.' I'm open to suggestions, I'm no prude, but four is a crowd in my book. Fortunately, Dyan Cannon was there. The thought of another woman being in there in the bed helped get me through it. It's not like it sounds. It's just that I don't think I could have done it if it had been me and three men."

(on being a child actor) "I spent practically all my time in the company of adults. I was very withdrawn, very shy, I did what I was told and I tried not to disappoint anybody. I knew I had a duty to perform, and I was trained to follow orders."

Shortly before her death: "You know what I want? I want yesterday."