There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

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

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

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

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.