I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?

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

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

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.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.