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

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

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.

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.

I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

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