We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

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

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.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

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.

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

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.