I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.
Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.
When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much knows everybody, and everyone sort of has that base already formed.
One minute I was completely unknown, barely able to feed my family, living on pennies. The next minute, Katie Couric was interviewing me on the breakfast show.
I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.
Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.
I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.
I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.
Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.
I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.
If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.
Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.
One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
