A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: "Run your own race, put on your blinders."

My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all.

How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.

Everyone takes fashion so seriously! It's fashion - enjoy it!

old age' is always ten years more than we are.

Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe. If you must go into the arts, go into them for yourself alone. On some basic level you must enjoy the act of doing it ... Otherwise, you are going to end up frustrated and unhappy. Recognition in the arts is luck and gravy.

I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.