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My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

I had a very exciting life in Italy, and I was doing lots of variety shows.

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.