Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

Rich is not better.

'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.

Because I've always had a strong personality, I've always thought I knew what was best.

For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.

I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.

I had to want to lose weight myself.

I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.

I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.

I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.

I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.

I'm at my best when there's distance between me and a man.

I'm not very kind about marriage. I will never get married again.

I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.

If I'm with someone for too long, I begin feeling trapped.

It's exciting to sing in the place where you pay your taxes.

Most performers don't get a chance to sing in Los Angeles.

My marriage is very important to me.

No matter what part of the business you want to be in, live performances are the most thrilling.

No one teaches you how to be graceful.

Of all the unhappiness I went through, you must know I wouldn't live a moment of my life differently for what I have now. Would I do it all again? I wouldn't want to, but if it got me to the same place, yeah, I'd do it. Because I realize now that God would not give more than I could handle.

You can get by on four hours' sleep, but you're not very exciting.

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.

Missing someone is a part of loving them. If you're never apart, you'll never really know how strong your love is.

I've been in the States and fought before. When I'm in that changing room, I'll feel as if I've been in that situation before. Obviously I'm going to have to deal on the biggest stage, and it's the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, but it doesn't faze me.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.

'Diversity' is like, 'Ugh, I have to do diversity.' I recognize and celebrate what it is, but that word, to me, is a disconnect.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

I was born in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada - but by the time I'd left high school, I'd moved seven times with my family, my father's engineering work taking us to places as far-flung as Bay City, Texas, and Wolnae-Ri in South Korea.

Books are not greedy, they want nothing from us than to be read. Books are not stingy, they withhold nothing from us.

People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'

I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.

Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis.

Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.

Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.