All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

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.

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

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.