I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

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?

A mí me ha tocado no estar contigo

Be yourself, don't try to be someone else. And the right people will love you for who you are.

As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.

It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

There is no armour against fate.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.

Start drinking vodka instead of beer, and try to get a six-pack as early as possible and you'll be a much more successful actor.

Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.