I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.