I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
Sounds always fascinated me.
My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.