Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I’ve found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman.

Beauty lies not in a flawless complexion, but in the stories that are told by each transitioning line on a woman’s face.

We are a part of love, not separate from it

To those who struggle comes strength.

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

I come straight from hell, Cell 23

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.

Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.

This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.