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Show business is my life.

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. It's just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.

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

As the wonderful agony begins for 1964-65, I sometimes wonder why I do it. I've got an insurance business going on the side, and it is starting to grow nicely. Selling insurance fulfills me, in a way, like basketball. But basketball keeps calling me back. I suppose I'll play until I can't keep up with the kids any longer.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.