You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

How are you still sane?""Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me."Shit.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes?