One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes. |
Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous. |
Somebody like me doesn't get arthritis, doesn't get all the other diseases that come along. Well, it happened to me. |
That's certainly what I grew up with-ballet and musical comedy. My mother taught ballroom dancing and, I think, would have liked to have been a dancer herself. So she pushed me a lot when I was very young, but I loved it. All I really wanted to be was a dancer. There's a discipline in dance that you don't get anywhere else. |
The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor. |
The meeting tonight was to reinstate or not reinstate the bus stops. |
The shoulder pads were very powerful-and made the waist and hips look smaller, too. |
The sound department was constantly yelling at me. I don't have a very loud voice to begin with. A lot of times, they'd put a lavaliere mike on me and crank it up. |
There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character. |
They sent me to catechism classes and then to first grade in a Catholic school, and apparently I cried and moaned and bitched so much that they took me out. |
We need to follow our mission statement. We have to produce a productive student that can go out into society. |
When I first started out, I did some modeling, and I used to feel tremendously inferior because I'm 5'4", and I was always around these 6-foot women. I felt like a shrimp. And I hated that. |
You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith! |
You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product. |