Joey Heatherton

“One day Dad was driving in to New York to appear on a telethon. I hid in the back seat until he had gone too far to turn back. I pleaded with him to let me appear on the telethon with him. He finally agreed. Richard Rodgers happened to be watching the telecast, and he called Dad afterwards with the offer of a job for me.”

“I'm just grateful for the kind of experience I've had, and the people I've been able to work with.”

“A lot of people think of me only as a cute, sexy blonde.”

“I don't have a special diet.”

“It's awful when everything's before your time.”

“Our family is very close and since I'm not one for cooking or answering alarm clocks on the first ring, I depend on mother.”

“My mother was a dancer and my first ambition was to dance, but now that I've had some acting experience I want to become a very good actress.”

“When I started making movies, they tried to change my name, but I had already made a name for myself in a couple of Broadway productions and in television, so I wouldn't change it.”

“I love my audiences.”

“I want to be on the big stage. Broadway. I was there before.”

“I like New York because of the fast tempo there.”

“I make sure that I work out on the mat and the trapeze. That helps tone the legs and arms. Following that, I may lift some 5- or 10-pound weights. That's good for maintaining a nice round figure, if you know what I mean.”

“I love my music. It gets written by some very great writers.”

“Mother had taught me dance steps from the time I was 3, and we were always singing and dancing around the kitchen table.”

“I just love to perform. It's my life.”

“My parents were dead set against my becoming a professional performer before I finished college. They felt the most important thing a girl can have in any career is education.”

“Once when I was making a picture in Hollywood, one of the directors who was a health addict was always trying to got me to eat organic bread, tiger milk and yoghurt, I must say the only thing I liked was the strawberry yoghurt.”

“I've had some life, and it got pretty accelerated, really quite exciting but very dangerous.”

“I don't think anyone is ever past the stage of learning.”

“I believe in theatrics, and I believe in show biz.”