Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Angie Dickinson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Angie Dickinson.

Last updated on November 9, 2024.

Angeline Dickinson is an American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before gaining her breakthrough role in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness and the Western film Rio Bravo (1959), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.

American - Actress | Born: September 30, 1931

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

Angie Dickinson

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!

Angie Dickinson

I never thought of myself as beautiful. I thought I was OK, certainly good enough to get along.

Angie Dickinson

Growing older doesn't bother me.

Angie Dickinson

I never really felt like a movie star until 'Police Woman.'

Angie Dickinson

If you're only trading on looks and your body, that's only going to go so far. But that was never my bag. I was always about the whole package.

Angie Dickinson

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.

Angie Dickinson

Betty White jokes are just not for me.

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I have never knowingly dated a Republican.

Angie Dickinson

Anybody can be a drummer.

Angie Dickinson

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.

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

Angie Dickinson

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

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

Angie Dickinson

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

Angie Dickinson

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.

Angie Dickinson

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

Angie Dickinson

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

Angie Dickinson

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

Angie Dickinson

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.

Angie Dickinson

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

Angie Dickinson

I dress for women and I undress for men.

Angie Dickinson

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

Angie Dickinson

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.

Angie Dickinson

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.

Angie Dickinson

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

Angie Dickinson

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

Angie Dickinson

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

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.

Angie Dickinson

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.

Angie Dickinson

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.

Angie Dickinson

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

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

Angie Dickinson

Growing older doesnt bother me.

Angie Dickinson

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.

Angie Dickinson

I didn't care about being the 'star. ' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

Angie Dickinson

So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men.

Angie Dickinson

I don't want to be a great actress. I want to be a sexy movie star.

Angie Dickinson

Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Angie Dickinson

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