I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

It's okay to look back, just don't stare.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Fear--who cares?

We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Now, games have been democratized. Everyone plays games.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should.