Quotes from Angie Dickinson

I think it was sexier when you didn't have to take it all off.

When I completely submerge my sensuality or my sexuality, I'm not very interesting.

Growing older doesn't bother me.

I was never in the top category of anything. I was never on people's lists. I was never the potential anything!

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

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.

There's a difference between a Hollywood wife and a Hollywood woman. I don't count. I worked.

I grew up going to movies. My daddy was the projectionist, so we got in for free.

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 have never knowingly dated a Republican.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

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!

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.

The double standard means men can run around and women cannot. I think I'm up to testing that.

I don't drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.

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.

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.

I used to learn my lines on the toilet, in the car, at dinner.

When you're a TV star, you pretty much set the tone, and on 'Police Woman,' we goofed around all the time.

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'm hard to imitate because I'm not gifted enough.

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

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.