My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being an elf.