I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because its so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesnt want to or cant join the Big Parade.

If youre passionate about something then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

After 30 a body has a mind of its own.

Cats always seem so very wise when staring with their half closed eyes. Can they be thinking Ill be nice and maybe she will feed me twice

Give a girl the correct footwear and she can conquer the world.

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.