If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Time wounds all heals.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.

I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!

I was a weekend drinker...I'd start on Saturday, end on Friday...thought I was controlling it...but I don't drink any more.

If you take a negative, turn it inside out, it's still a negative. You're just revealing the ugly inside of negative so I say keep it as is.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.