The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

It was an extraordinary experience to have backup singers like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I have never experienced anything quite like it before and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.