My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.

I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad.

Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.

The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies.

Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never contacted me.' And very often women say, 'Do youuuuuu know what I have?' and I want to say, 'Yessssssss, I do.' Because inevitably the answer is, 'An original Shirley Temple doll.'

When I saw work shoes, I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child.

Shirley Temple doesn't hurt Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple helps Shirley Temple Black. She is thought of as a friend - which I am!

One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.'

I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman.