ANN-MARGRET

I just love my privacy.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.

I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.

I don't drink.

It's nice to play a three-dimensional person every once in a while for a change of pace.

I've been so fortunate. People are so kind. I really am grateful for that.

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've had motorcycle accidents!

I feel I have this joy in my heart. I just want to make people feel.

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

My father was proud that people thought I was a good actress. I'm the only child. And daddy's girl.

I work out three times a week with a trainer.

I don't take a movie unless it offers me something unusual.

I've always been extremely puritanical.

I'm the only one of all my friends that doesn't cook. But I don't cook, and I don't care.

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 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.

Alan Arkin is a good cook.

I tried in '71 to relax. I thought I gave my farewell tour.

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.

Music ignited a fiery, pent-up passion inside Elvis and inside me. It was an odd, embarrassing, funny, inspiring, and wonderful sensation.