A rich man is most coveted but I'd be damned if I be a poor woman

There is a valid reason why they say live everyday as if it were your last, the truth is...., there is no tomorrow - just today

There is time to compromise. There is time to absolutely abhor d word. Most times it is the latter. Compromise is mediocrity. Compromise is cheap.

I am made of a thousand ghosts, only you can shoot me down.

When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.