Shirley Jones Quotes

"After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise."

"The show killed my movie career." - on "The Partridge Family"

"Jack had a breakdown. A real mental breakdown. He was manic depressive. But he was the one that wanted the divorce. He thought it was better for me and the kids. I never did. I would have hung in there. I felt in many ways he was acting strangely and doing strange things and he felt perhaps it was better for all of us." - on the end of her marriage to Jack Cassidy

"You don`t throw away 27 years. You just don`t." - on why she withdrew her divorce petition against Marty Ingels

"It`s astonishing to see how many of these Hollywood big-wigs are trying to undermine President Bush."

"Some people pooh-pooh the Oscar. My career had been over because they weren`t making musicals anymore. At the time, it was thought that if you were a singer you couldn`t act." (on how winning an Oscar changed her life.)

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that`s what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it`s not reality, but who cares? There`s too much reality these days.

It`s great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don`t always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.

I`m a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That`s my kind of music.