It's very complicated because I cannot wear the same thing too often.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

Bobby Troup and I have been working together for about a year in clubs. We work in the same club.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

We've performed in South America and in Japan.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

It's very complicated because I cannot wear the same thing too often.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

Maybe I have to be more aggressive.

I'm totally human.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

Of course, there will always be, you know, conservative classical people who will judge you, but you know, who cares about them?

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.

I feel there's everything to do yet.

I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.

I was quiet, but I was not bling.

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.

I think Russell Brand's books should be criticised for being rubbish - but it is true that there's a professional class of opinion-former who has a financial interest in their job not being taken away.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.

To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.