I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.

Nowists get off on getting on, so they run when they could walk, jump when they could sit and dance when they could sit at the edge. They regret inaction, so simply act.

To worry is to wear yourself out.

Ask yourself what you will care about when everything is on the line.

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

Life is short, have dessert first.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.