"I never had a mother, a father, a brother, a sister. I had a grandmother, and she was a saint. She raised me. But I never had a mother."

"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation."

"I don't believe in happy endings. I believe in happy beginnings."

"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up."

"It's like a disease. You can't get rid of it. You just have to live with it. And it's like, I don't know, it's like a habit. You can't break it."