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.'
Ann-Margret
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.
I'm a very happy person.
I just love my privacy.
Music ignited a fiery, pent-up passion inside Elvis and inside me. It was an odd, embarrassing, funny, inspiring, and wonderful sensation.
I was always taught that you don't think you are anything special 'cause there's always someone who is more special than you. Just be the best you that you can be.
I tried in '71 to relax. I thought I gave my farewell tour.
I always went to Sunday school, sang in the choir.
I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.
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.
On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.
I don't take a movie unless it offers me something unusual.
I work out three times a week with a trainer.
Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.
Performing is my passion.
I feel I have this joy in my heart. I just want to make people feel.
The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.
I've had motorcycle accidents!
It's nice to play a three-dimensional person every once in a while for a change of pace.
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.
I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.
Alan Arkin is a good cook.
I've always been extremely puritanical.
When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.
I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.
I'm the only one of all my friends that doesn't cook. But I don't cook, and I don't care.
I've been so fortunate. People are so kind. I really am grateful for that.
My father was proud that people thought I was a good actress. I'm the only child. And daddy's girl.
The man that I married is the man I knew I was going to marry on the third date.
I don't drink.
When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.
Ken Russell was wonderful to me. I'd heard all these things about how he'd yell and scream at people, but I found him to be a very nice, normal person.
