Quotes from Joey Heatherton

Show business is in my blood.

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

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.

I'm not just Joey. I'm a performer. I can sing, dance and I can act.

Yes, people are always predicting a big breakthrough for me, but it has never happened. I don't know why, exactly. But I don't worry about it.

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

I'll babble, bubble and talk around those I know real good.

People try to turn you into something if they can't pin you down.

I think that baking cakes with elaborate icings for an appreciative audience is fun.

I can't help the way I look. What am I supposed to do, put a plastic bag over my head?

I like Los Angeles. I've been able to do a lot there - swim, ski, go riding. But California isn't very stimulating.

The first thing I do in the morning is get a couple of cups of coffee down my throat to get my heart started. Then, if the weather is pleasant, I jog as much as five miles, if I feel up to it.

I wanted to be in show business before I could get out of my crib.

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

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

I like to get the audience involved in my act by walking among the tables and getting people to ask me questions.

I'm not a big talker.

I think the prettiest play in football is the pass.

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.

I eat what I want, usually one meal In the daytime and one at night.

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.

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 never wanted to do anything but get into show biz. But believe me, success didn't come overnight. And I shed a lot of tears - like in school, when all the other kids in class made fun of me. They just hated me because I could sing and dance.

Parents ought to try to learn the language teenagers speak, and they ought to listen to teenage music.