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I was a guest at the White House years ago. I'm not sure if they still do tours the way they did back then. But I got to go to the War Room. It's the room with the red phone and all the monitors. When I went down there, guess what was on TV? Wheel of Fortune. I swear.
People don't know the real you unless you tell them.
I'm a shy show-off. If you can understand that, then you can understand me. It's complex.
Einstein. That's who I'd like to have lunch with. I'd like to know how his brain works.
I really don't have a problem with age, because there's nothing we can do about it.
Who counted all those claps? Seven hundred and twenty an episode? I'd like to meet the person who counted. It hasn't done any damage to my hands. Look — not even a callus. I guess I have a way of clapping gently.
Rat Patrol! That was the moment I knew. I was ten years old, lying on the sofa because I'd just had my appendix taken out, and Rat Patrol comes on. My mother points to the TV and says, "That's your uncle, Christopher George." And I thought, Wow, my uncle's on TV? I want to be on TV! From that day forward, that's all I wanted to do.
My philosophy in life is: Go for it! If I wanted an ice cream and didn't have any money, I always figured out a way to get it.
I grew up playing games with my mother and dad. Jigsaw puzzles. Crossword puzzles. Card games. Board games. Scrabble. Life. Monopoly. I watched Wheel of Fortune. I was a fan of Wheel of Fortune.
I'm a spitfire. I don't know what you call this feeling, but it comes from having Latin blood.
In 1980 I rented a twenty-foot U-Haul truck with a stick shift and a governor that wouldn't let it go more than fifty miles an hour and headed for Hollywood. A girlfriend and I drove cross-country eating Vienna sausages and crackers. We stopped a couple of times in seedy hotels. I remember a bare lightbulb hanging. But I was moving to Hollywood — and I was going to become a star!
Things I regret? A big one was posing in lingerie when I couldn't pay the rent. I knew I shouldn't be doing it, but I was tooproud to ask my dad for the money. The whole time during the shoot I had conflicting thoughts: I should not be doing this. And: Just grin and bear it. It was for a thousand dollars — my rent that month. These were not spread-eagle nude shots. They were lingerie shots. But remember, I'm a shy girl.
So what happened? Later on, Hugh Hefner bought those lingerie shots. It was in the early stages of my career at Wheel of Fortune. I had met Hugh by then. And I went to him and pleaded, "Please, do not publish them. This could really hurt my career." He said it was out of his control. And they were published. There my rear end was, on the cover of Playboy. I felt betrayed.
People still come up to me with that Playboy and ask me to sign it. I never do.
The hardest part of being pregnant was making sure I didn't turn to the side and hide the last letter.
I try to raise my children the way my parents raised me.
Whatever you want to do can be done before midnight. I always tell my kids that. Nothing good happens after midnight.
This is just a thought. It may take women a long time to get dressed because they're not sure what they're going to wear. Most of the time, I know what I'm going to wear before I put it on. If I'm going to a party, I've already thought it out. So maybe it takes women a long time to dress because they haven't thought about what they're going to wear.
What a great guy Merv Griffin was. I miss him terribly. He knew how to make everyone feel special. He made his waiter feel good.
It's a brother-sister thing. I can tell if he's not in a great mood. And Pat can tell if I'm not in a great mood. After twenty-nine years, you get to know each other.
I don't remember why he kissed me. Was it an April Fool's joke? With Pat, you never know what he's going to do at the end of the show.
The day I can't fit into dresses and can't walk and can't see is the day I'll stop. But that's not approaching yet.
Think about it. I get to give away someone else's money and make people happy — how's that for a job?
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