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

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 became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.