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

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.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.