Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.