New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

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.

Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.

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 want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.