There was this one movie I really wanted to do, with Gregory Peck, 'Captain Newman, M.D.,' and Universal said, 'Well, if you want that, you're going to have to sign a seven-year contract.' And I'd already been through that. But I needed it, so I signed.

Angie Dickinson

I dress for women and I undress for men.

Angie Dickinson

I remember a Humphrey Bogart movie where he was a reporter, so I wanted to be a reporter, and then he was a parachutist, and I wanted to be a parachutist.

Angie Dickinson

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

Angie Dickinson

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

Angie Dickinson

When I completely submerge my sensuality or my sexuality, I'm not very interesting.

Angie Dickinson

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age. If the part requires somebody a little younger or older, I can probably get away with that.

Angie Dickinson

Anybody can be a drummer.

Angie Dickinson

There's a difference between a Hollywood wife and a Hollywood woman. I don't count. I worked.

Angie Dickinson

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

Angie Dickinson

The romantic love of my life, I'm sure, was Burt Bacharach. I had a few that were wonderful, but I married him, and that's going pretty far.

Angie Dickinson

The double standard means men can run around and women cannot. I think I'm up to testing that.

Angie Dickinson

If you're only trading on looks and your body, that's only going to go so far. But that was never my bag. I was always about the whole package.

Angie Dickinson

I was 10 when I left Kulm, N.D. I had a wonderful childhood there, out playing in the mud. We moved to California then, but I still went to Catholic school, didn't grow up very sophisticated or very liberal.

Angie Dickinson

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

Angie Dickinson

I'm hard to imitate because I'm not gifted enough.

Angie Dickinson

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.

Angie Dickinson

I don't drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.

Angie Dickinson

I think it was sexier when you didn't have to take it all off.

Angie Dickinson

My mother raised three girls, really, pretty much on her own, and she didn't have time for play or conversation or whatever. She had to take care of a house, a business, and three kids.

Angie Dickinson

There was this one movie I really wanted to do, with Gregory Peck, 'Captain Newman, M.D.,' and Universal said, 'Well, if you want that, you're going to have to sign a seven-year contract.' And I'd already been through that. But I needed it, so I signed.

Angie Dickinson