Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.