47 Quotes by Donna Mills

One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.

Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.

You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.

There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.

Somebody like me doesn't get arthritis, doesn't get all the other diseases that come along. Well, it happened to me.

I did a video... and now I have an eye-makeup kit out. I did the video because I got so many letters. I did my own makeup.

I always loved Bette Davis-she's probably my very favorite. She had an influence on me in that I felt I knew what she was thinking. She was thinking the things she wanted me to know about. When you're in extreme close-up, all you have to do is think, and the thoughts will read.