My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

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.

If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!