Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.

Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.

What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.

You don't have to be perfect, just be loving and compassionate.

The time to clean our city of any dirt begins individual action for collective clean communities.

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

Well, that's an evil smile.

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.