Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming!

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!

Why make a movie about Ayrton Senna? Someone who drove around in circles at 200mph in a car that looked like a giant cigarette packet? Why would anyone who isn't already a fan of Formula 1 care?

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.