When I tried out for cheerleader, they sneered, 'You're too good, kid,' and put me in the high-kick line instead. It was pure jealousy, if you ask me.Collection: Jealousy
My parents were dead set against my becoming a professional performer before I finished college. They felt the most important thing a girl can have in any career is education.
Our family is very close and since I'm not one for cooking or answering alarm clocks on the first ring, I depend on mother.
Once when I was making a picture in Hollywood, one of the directors who was a health addict was always trying to got me to eat organic bread, tiger milk and yoghurt, I must say the only thing I liked was the strawberry yoghurt.
I'll crumble off a little tuna on a plate, sprinkle with lemon and spear the pieces with colorful toothpicks, so it looks festive and appetizing.
I like to get the audience involved in my act by walking among the tables and getting people to ask me questions.
The first thing I do in the morning is get a couple of cups of coffee down my throat to get my heart started. Then, if the weather is pleasant, I jog as much as five miles, if I feel up to it.
I make sure that I work out on the mat and the trapeze. That helps tone the legs and arms. Following that, I may lift some 5- or 10-pound weights. That's good for maintaining a nice round figure, if you know what I mean.
I like Los Angeles. I've been able to do a lot there - swim, ski, go riding. But California isn't very stimulating.
Once in awhile, for a special occasion, I get really dressed up, but that kind of an occasion doesn't happen very often. So I don't really need much besides jeans.
I never wanted to do anything but get into show biz. But believe me, success didn't come overnight. And I shed a lot of tears - like in school, when all the other kids in class made fun of me. They just hated me because I could sing and dance.
During my first tour of Vietnam, John Steinbeck and his wife were there and we had Christmas dinner together.
My mother was a dancer and my first ambition was to dance, but now that I've had some acting experience I want to become a very good actress.
I really work at a part to do it to the best of my ability. And I'm studying acting as well as keeping up with my singing and dancing lessons.
When I started making movies, they tried to change my name, but I had already made a name for myself in a couple of Broadway productions and in television, so I wouldn't change it.