I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.