Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Whatever you believe in, is true – at least to you! The question is, “How positive and empowering is it, especially in the face of adversity?

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

I can't die. It would ruin my image.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all this time... it's a very special country, I could easily live here.