Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

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

I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

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

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

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.

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.