Born on March 21st

"I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here."

"To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty."

"You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way."

"I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix."

"It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can."

"I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!"

"I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age."

"I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree."

"I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping."

"The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war."

"Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement."

"I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped."

"Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!"

"And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession."

"Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant."

"But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached."

"Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody."

"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage."

"I don't have a very quick sense of humor."

"It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind."

"Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work."

"Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production."

"They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure."

"To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently."

"Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries."

"Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay."

"I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills."

"You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks."

"Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically."

"The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient."