When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

If you can't change a situation, you can change your attitude toward it.

People don't buy from clowns.

But Champagne is not drinking.

You don’t pay attention man/that’s why your money is the size of your attention span.

I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so we couldn't get accused of copyright infringement.

If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.