No matter what part of the business you want to be in, live performances are the most thrilling.
I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.
No one teaches you how to be graceful.
'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.
It's exciting to sing in the place where you pay your taxes.
All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.
I had a pretty rough life. I got caught up in the star syndrome. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's something that I'm glad is over.
I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.
New York is a good city for not having to get fat.
I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.
There's nothing worse than working with an orchestra who looks down on working with a conductor who doesn't want to conduct for you. You need to be with an orchestra that can follow you and respect you.
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
I think that anyone who denies their heritage doesn't deserve their destiny. My grandmother was a maid. She put nine children - eight of them - through college; I did not finish college.
I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.
Rich is not better.
You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.
Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.
Most performers don't get a chance to sing in Los Angeles.
I'm not very kind about marriage. I will never get married again.
