I'm not singing anymore; that is why I am so pleased to be writing. My daughter said, "You just found a different way of using your voice."

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

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

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

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

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

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.