Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

Preparation to success is hard work of daily practice with improvement.

Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie