Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty.

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

Optimism is my best defense.

I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.

People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.

Through play, children experience a greater confidence in their bodies, surroundings and themselves. They become familiar with what they can and cannot do.

I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.