I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well.

If I am able to sing again it will be through some miracle operation. There's a lot of work being done to help singers regain their voices, but in my case I actually lost vocal tissue so it's very hard for my chords to rub together and I need to replace that tissue. I remain optimistic but not tremendously so.

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

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.

There is no greater thrill than to sing with a beautiful orchestra.

I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.