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

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.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

I started using a raft at my shows in 2009, and in 2011, I started caking people.

It's very hard to just have a pure form like a Hulu or a YouTube to be successful in China because our view is, users come to a platform; they really don't care whether it is professional or whether it's a user-generated, or it's premium, you see. They want to come to a big database to be able to find the content they want.

I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.

I love myself for treating myself well.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.