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'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.
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.
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.
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.
It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
