After all, didn't I blow a magnificent career?

We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.

You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for California. You would go on at 8 pm in New York but you would also have to go on at 8 p.m. in California. That meant coming back in to do the show at 11 p.m.

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.