I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.
Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.
I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.
It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.
I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.
If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.
I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.
I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.
I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.
I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.
If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.
The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.
The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.
