Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

As soon as I laid eyes on him, it all came flooding back, all the reasons why I loved him, all the reasons why I hadn't been able to let him go.

she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities.

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Of course, change requires change. Until there is a felt need for change, it is only an event not a pattern.

It’s nine o’clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is?

My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.

Evil man make me kill you.

Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.

For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.