Angie Dickinson
I dress for women and I undress for men.Collection: Women
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!Collection: Morning
My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.Collection: Funny
My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.
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.
I don't drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.
I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.
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.
I think it was sexier when you didn't have to take it all off.
Growing older doesn't bother me.
I wouldn't want to be known only as a sex symbol. I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so.
I grew up going to movies. My daddy was the projectionist, so we got in for free.
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.
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.
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.
When you're a TV star, you pretty much set the tone, and on 'Police Woman,' we goofed around all the time.
My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.
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.
I have never knowingly dated a Republican.
I never really felt like a movie star until 'Police Woman.'
I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.
Betty White jokes are just not for me.
Anybody can be a drummer.
I used to learn my lines on the toilet, in the car, at dinner.
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.
I was popular in high school. I smiled, and I laughed, and I talked, and I wasn't bad-looking, but I was never considered beautiful - never, ever.
I never thought of myself as beautiful. I thought I was OK, certainly good enough to get along.
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.
When I completely submerge my sensuality or my sexuality, I'm not very interesting.
There's a difference between a Hollywood wife and a Hollywood woman. I don't count. I worked.
The double standard means men can run around and women cannot. I think I'm up to testing that.
I was never in the top category of anything. I was never on people's lists. I was never the potential anything!
I'm hard to imitate because I'm not gifted enough.
So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Oil
I don't want to be a great actress. I want to be a sexy movie star.Collection: Sexy
Growing older doesnt bother me.Collection: Growing
I didn't care about being the 'star. ' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.Collection: Stars