I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.