You never start out being a star.

I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.