In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that the rest is easy.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

I know I'm not great at structure and story.

I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.