All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.