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.

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.

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?

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear, they run in sheer fright.

If you believe you can achieve your dreams, you find the strength to pursue it.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness.

You should not take your intuitions at face value.

...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.