The minute you're born, you're getting older.

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.

When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

My awards are lovely. I love to show them off.

Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.

After a days walk everything has twice its usual value.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

I was always called Payne or Payno.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.

The public is always good.