And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived.

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

A victor's mentality becomes a victor's reality.

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

The fact of the matter is, we have the strongest banking system in the world.

Side by side or miles apart, real friends are always close to the heart.