The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

It's real important to enjoy your turn.

What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.