I have worked like a dog all my life, honey. Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn’t think you have a brain in your head.

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.

Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us.'

I don't want to work all of the time.

If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.

There are great characters on television.

The thing is, you don't want to overact or be full of yourself.

So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching.

Honestly, I don't want to get into two grown men's personal business...I like both of them as a person and I love Mayweather as a boxer so I leave it up to them to handle.

Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

Love resolves. Love. Love's deeper than the hurt.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

I need to keep reinventing myself.

Remorse weeps tears of blood.