If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

I kill myself for my body.

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Women are the real architects of society.

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

I can't do coffee, but I can do Dr. Pepper.

I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

I know it sounds weird, but how bad, how hard can dying be?

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

I'm not old-fashioned.