I Can't Sit Around And Wait For

My Parents Were Hungarian Immigrants; My Father Was A Tailor And We Lived In The Back Of A Tailor Store. And That Was My First Inkling Of What It Was Like To Be Raised In America. It Had A Profound Effect On Me - I Saw Different People Coming In All The Time With Different Attitudes And I Liked It. And As I Grew Older, I Found That I Was Able To Use Something Inside Of Me To Get Some Sympathy If I Wanted It. I Used To Shine Shoes, And I Would Use A Waif-like Look. I'd Get A Dime And I'd Be As Happy As Could Be.

Marilyn Monro Wasn't The Brightest Person In The World - That Didn't Make A Difference One Way Or The Other - But She Was Giving And Kind. And That's What Got Her In Trouble. She Was So Giving And Kind To All Of These People She Met That She Found Herself Doing These Things That She Didn't Want To Do.

They Gave Me Away As A Prize Once - A Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend Competition. The Woman Who Won Was Disappointed. She'd Hoped For Second Prize - A New Stove.

We Often Don't Think Of Them, We Think Of The Great Wars And The Great Battles, But What About Losing A Son Or A Daughter, Or A Girl Losing Her Husband Or Vice Versa? I Think Of The People Who Never Got The Chance To Have The Opportunities I Had.

At 17, I Dreamed Of Seeing The World. At 19, I Had Been Around The World And Back.