I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.
Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.
Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.
Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
Small changes done now would preserve Social Security at full benefit.
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.