I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!

When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

America is so caught up in this celebrity mania!

I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.