I don’t know a high C from a low C.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that’s what acting and performing is all about – being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

You know, I’m a television personality. It’s not like I’m a famous hooker or something!

I had to give up martinis – I enjoyed them too much.

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God’s good green Earth. He’s my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything – including certain janitorial chores!

Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother – which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.

I've just learned more about the human body than anyone would ever care to know.

I think it's a wonderful experience, particularly if you are younger, because you can use all of this stuff you learn in cabaret. One of the reasons I love cabaret is the freedom. It's absolutely marvelous. It's great... that real freedom of being able to do anything you want. You can do five minutes on pantyhose.

Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play-within-the-play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.

God, did that put a white streak in my mother's hair! I mean, I ran away from home before it was chic to do such a thing.