[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy....Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks

There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.