Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret