Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.