When Mel told his Jewish mother he was marrying an Italian girl, she said: 'Bring her over. I'll be in the kitchen- with my head in the oven'.

The studios wanted to give me the Monroe-type sex buildup. I wanted to develop my acting, not my body.

What I learned from her, really, was having a sense of humour and knowing how important laughter was. ~ Patty Duke

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually …

A Korean reporter once asked me, 'Do you think your Korean parents are ashamed because you talk about what you talk about on stage?' I said, 'I don't think the…

[on having a gay child] And the Three Wise Drag Queens would come, bearing gifts of 1000-thread count sheets, hair products by Frederic Fekkai, and a copy of t…