People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.