BARBI BENTON

People, whatever their profession is, have a right to fight for the right causes.

What I really want is to create a name based on my own accomplishments.

The new age disc jockeys and program directors have accepted me as a new age artist, along with Shadowfax and the rest, and they're playing my songs.

Circus lions are mean. They don't know anything about affection training.

After three months of singing, Hef heard me practicing once. He tried to convince me to quit singing lessons because there was no chance of being good at it. Of course, I cried a lot when he said that, but it was my money that I was investing in lessons so I continued partly out of spite and partly because I really wanted to do it.

As for those who condemn Hef, he's done a great deal for women's lib and sexual liberation as well.

One thing I love is that I don't have a lot of people running around Hollywood saying 'I've had her,' because guys love to talk, especially about celebrities.

In 'Sugar' I'll be singing in every episode and I'll be acting and doing comedy. It's ideal for me if it works.

I buy unknown, lower-name brand jeans. I don't care about the name brands, if I look good in the jeans I don't care who made them.

I've lost a lot of fat and that's through weight lifting.

I'm looking for personal credibility as an entertainer.

When I was growing up, we were in a high income bracket, one of the highest. I was one of the first in high school to get a car. And I didn't have to wait for it to be a graduation present, either. We've probably got one of the nicest houses in Sacramento.

You can't let fashion tell you what to do. If it doesn't look good on you you're better off without it.

What I don't like is the way people automatically think I am a kept woman, that he pays my expenses. This puts me in a rage. I've always paid my own way, even while living in his mansion. I've kept an apartment of my own. In fact, I not only buy my own clothes, but many of Hef's, too - he just hates to shop.

With Hef it was a relationship. It's the world that made a big thing out of it.

If it were up to me, I wouldn't have security. But Hef thinks I'm naive. He feels I'm vulnerable to kidnapping.

I will never be Barbra Streisand, but I have done an awful lot more than what I was sent out to be.

I'm no libber. I like it when a man looks at me and treats me like a woman. I do think though, that women should get equal pay to a man doing the same thing.

Hef is boring to cook for. He likes a total of four main dishes: fried chicken, pot roast, pork roast and pork chop sandwich!

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

I was studying pre-med at UCLA when I decided show business was for me, and the best way to make it was in music. I had just one problem. I was tone deaf.

My young face keeps me in the running for youthful roles. If my face is going to look 22 then so should my body.

Let's face it, sightseeing can be a bore at times.

One never knows when the angels are coming to get you, but everybody has to go.

I think Jane Fonda is to be admired for her stands.