I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

When adversity hits, go out and learn something.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

I think family matters to me enormously. In fact, family is the first priority. If my family is good, I can do anything. If they're not, I'm a basket case.