I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

I always try to be a reliable friend.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a deer it would hiccup, and keep going.

Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'

Love goes unappreciated a lot of times, but you still gotta keep giving it.

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.