I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

[Las Vegas in the early 1960] was thrilling, exciting... I would describe it as very Parisian.

I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I did, it was against union rules. It was a stupid law, because so much is lost. We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

Near the end, she [Marilyn Monroe] was badly treated by Fox Studios, during the 'Let's Make Love' film shoot in 1960, they threw her off the set because she had a cold.

[Marilyn Monroe] was a bit temperamental, a little diva-like, but she didn't deserve what she got.