Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.
I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.
A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.
I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.
When people ask me about modeling, what it was like, I say, "It was fabulous!" If you can use it in the right way - to travel to meet other people, to learn how to dress, to make some money - I think it's great. But I also think it takes girls. If they don't know how to handle themselves, or if they do it just for a little time and are not successful, then they get terribly depressed about themselves.
I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.
An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums. . . and tape it to your belly button. I'm not kidding you. This really, really works.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that. . . and all the glory of it.
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.