New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'
These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.
Talent is seductive.
There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split.
I never thought about living in New York. I just thought it was great.
I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.
Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.
There are a lot of things I do that I don't want to, but I have to. It's truly an emotional need for me to perform.
Isn't this fantastic, what a star I am?
I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have.
I like glasses so I can go out without my makeup. Just grab your coat and get your hat and go.
When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd rather be in Detroit, Michigan, than Lenox Hill.
I love New York. I went to New York to become an actress, and I did it. And I won all the awards known to man. And I'm happy. And I came home. I came, I saw, I conquered. And it feels great.
I'm loaded with talent.
I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don't feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do.
I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.
If I see someone saying the rosary in the wings, I know they've got talent.
