A lot of actresses will just go, "I'm 35." And I thought, " I'm not doing that." I like being 40.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

I certainly support civil unions.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.