I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
I have never known stage-fright at any time.
I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.
I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.