I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Diamonds never leave you... men do!

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me ... I would die.

You don't get older, you get better.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded - period.

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.