Quotes from Ann-Margret

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

Performing is my passion.

I always went to Sunday school, sang in the choir.

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 man that I married is the man I knew I was going to marry on the third date.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

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

I just love my privacy.

On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.

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

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.

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

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.

Alan Arkin is a good cook.

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

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.'

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

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

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.