[Upon her entrance in the movie Salome Where She Danced (1945), where she danced]: I came through these beaded curtains, wearing a Japanese kimono and a Japanese headpiece, and then performed a Siamese dance. Nobody seemed to know quite why. [On "The Munsters" (1964)]: It meant security. It gave me a new, young audience I wouldn't have had otherwise. It made me 'hot' again, which I wasn't for a while. I was on cloud nine all the time. After I made my hit in Salome, Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star. [On writing her own autobiography]: If I could, I'd change a lot of things because I'm not proud of everything I've done in my life. But to those people who helped me, and there were a lot, I say, thank you. They're the reason I wrote this book. [When worried if "The Munsters" (1964) was ever going to be a hit]: I had moments of terror and fear that my public would not understand the makeup and all that. I really wondered if it was the right thing to do. [Who said in 1964 about playing the second vampire mother on television]: They told me to play her just like Donna Reed. That sounded strange to me until I tried it. Now it works. She acts just like any housewife. The difference is in her approach to things, as when she tells her little child to go to bed, 'And don't forget to close your lid.' The makeup turned out to her satisfaction. She wears floor-length black hair - gray-streaked with a widow's peak, of course. Her complexion is a faint green, but it shows up as dead white on the screen. She was pleased when some young visitors to the set commented how glamorous she looked. I wear a tight, fitting gray dress. The kind of thing it would be nice to be buried in. A long train and long, bat - like things banging from the sleeves. And low cut. [In 1965]: I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both. [When she was playing several concerts in the US, including the singing and dancing]: It would have happened to any film performer playing there. At every performance, there were between 150 and 200 civilian and military policemen to hold back the crowds. The hall would hold 1,500 people, but always the side doors would be pushed open and many more would stand in the aisles.