Angie Dickinson

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. ”

I dress for women and I undress for men. ”

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age. If the part requires somebody a little younger or older, I can probably get away with that. ”

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement. ”

My mother raised three girls, really, pretty much on her own, and she didn't have time for play or conversation or whatever. She had to take care of a house, a business, and three kids. ”

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

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 wouldn't want to be known only as a sex symbol. I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so. ”

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

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. ”