Ann-Margret
Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.Collection: Smile
I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.
I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.
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.'
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.
I've had motorcycle accidents!
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 feel I have this joy in my heart. I just want to make people feel.
I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.
Alan Arkin is a good cook.
I just love my privacy.
I don't take a movie unless it offers me something unusual.
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.
I tried in '71 to relax. I thought I gave my farewell tour.
It's nice to play a three-dimensional person every once in a while for a change of pace.
I've always been extremely puritanical.
The man that I married is the man I knew I was going to marry on the third date.
The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.
When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.
I'm a very happy person.
I always went to Sunday school, sang in the choir.
Performing is my passion.
I'm the only one of all my friends that doesn't cook. But I don't cook, and I don't care.
When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.
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.
On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.
Music ignited a fiery, pent-up passion inside Elvis and inside me. It was an odd, embarrassing, funny, inspiring, and wonderful sensation.
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.
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.
I was very flattered by the sex-kitten thing because I never thought of myself as that.Collection: Sex
Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.Collection: Fighting
For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.Collection: Cooking