The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be.

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.