I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they had seven children, although my sister Paulene was stillborn.
My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.
One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his 'little fat sausage.' But I always knew I had musical talent.
I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.
My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.
Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.
Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.
One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.
I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.
