I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.