I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?