Cactus Quotes

I went from high school -- bang! -- into the movies. I did spend a few weeks in acting classes in New York when my father was there doing Cactus Flower. But most of my training really came from my parents and my brother, Beau.

A creative person has to create. It doesn`t really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

He felt so horrible. It actually hurt. He was pulling something else away from me, and he couldn`t feel anything. That wig was really pinned in. Not to mention that in my wig cap I looked like I was bald on the Broadway stage. He bought me a little cactus with a cactus flower on it the next day.

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today`s shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.

I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it`s a cactus.