The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be

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

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

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 mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.