If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.