I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty