I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great . This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.