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.
— Ann-Margret
I don't drink.
The man that I married is the man I knew I was going to marry on the third date.
I'm a very happy person.
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.'
I work out three times a week with a trainer.
I've been so fortunate. People are so kind. I really am grateful for that.
On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.
It's nice to play a three-dimensional person every once in a while for a change of pace.
I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.
Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.
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 always been extremely puritanical.
I tried in '71 to relax. I thought I gave my farewell tour.
I always went to Sunday school, sang in the choir.
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 feel I have this joy in my heart. I just want to make people feel.
Alan Arkin is a good cook.
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.
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 don't take a movie unless it offers me something unusual.
Performing is my passion.
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.
My father was proud that people thought I was a good actress. I'm the only child. And daddy's girl.
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'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 just love my privacy.
