I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm." My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.

I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

Miracle me no miracles.

I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.