All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.