I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.