Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make

Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.