What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

Although no one believes me I have always been a country girl and still have a country girls values

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful perfect.

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

In '86 or '87, the welfare lists were at the lowest level in 17 years. Why? Because the economy was the best it was in 17 years. There were jobs.

I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

Abstinence until marriage is the best thing for young people physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. It's the best thing for society as a whole, and it's the message that schools absolutely ought to be sending.

Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.

I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less confidence that we'll be able to find a consensus about which ones are right without experiment.

I was never interested in golf until someone brought up the Get Golf Ready program to me.

I love music so much; I've always played.

I am a proud mother.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

Be thankful for what you have youll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you dont have you will never ever have enough.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.

A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.

Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good.

The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do that. We want you the way you are.'