If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?

I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.