You cant beat The Beatles, you join em.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'

I try to project not only a song but a personality.

Is That All There Is?

They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)

Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do.

Moments of love is life, a life is for moments of love.

Each color lives by its mysterious life.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea.

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.