I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

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.

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

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

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