Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at Ping-Pong with their husband... ? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.

I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?