No one has ever put anything into my suitcase.
I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.
Usually New York has lousy salads.
Weight has never been a problem with me because when you dance, it just stays off.
I never thought about doing men. Never.
Do I read her books? Of course.
I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.
I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
Traveling is really exhausting. That will force me into retirement.
Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.
I'm not a cook and I always stick everything in the freezer and then I leave things out, saying 'if it's good today it will be good tomorrow.'
I still perform live primarily. I just keep traveling and doing live shows. The main difference in film, you know in your mind that you are doing it for posterity, you are doing for the eventual audience and it will be around forever.
I have the largest private collection in the world [of Hollywood memorabilia].
'How the West was Won' was very hard, because it was a three cameras technique, meaning three cameras wide. Therefore I wasn't speaking to my fellow performer, I was speaking to a camera, or a line next to the camera. It was difficult to do, because its not real acting. I had to pretend that I was 'seeing' Agnes Moorhead or Jimmy Stewart or Carroll Baker. I wasn't, I was acting to a drawn line. It took me personally two years to make the film, because my character starts at age 16 and I end up being 92 years old in the film. By the end of that production, I was ready for a long nap.
I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.
[Marilyn Monroe] was a bit temperamental, a little diva-like, but she didn't deserve what she got.
Marilyn [Monroe] was really mistreated.
My favorite [costume in collection] is the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the subway breeze scene in 'The Seven Year Itch.'
[Las Vegas in the early 1960] was thrilling, exciting... I would describe it as very Parisian.
For 'Singin' in the Rain,' I bought most of the costumes - the 'Fit as a Fiddle' costumes and the 'Make Them Laugh' Donald O'Connor outfits and the 'Good Morning, Good Morning' clothes we danced in.
The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.
[Bob Fosse] was a temperamental fellow - it was his way or the highway.
Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.
I'm a big believer that Marilyn Monroe was killed.
Near the end, she [Marilyn Monroe] was badly treated by Fox Studios, during the 'Let's Make Love' film shoot in 1960, they threw her off the set because she had a cold.
