"Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value."

"Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important."

"You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again."

"I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen."

"OMG! Is this true? [Marcus Bachmann] has a Christian clinic where he de-programs gay boys & girls! I'm gonna strangle him with my Boa!"

"Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle."

"Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date."

"You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud."

"I can't listen to my own voice, I don't like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections."

"I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud."

"There is only one value to having the look you have when you are young and no value to the look you have when you are older."

"I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck."

"In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet."

"I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks."

"I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage."

"When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you."

"Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger."

"It’s not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It’s not the end-all, be-all of my life."

"I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time."

"Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right."

"Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships."

"One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go."

"Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical."

"Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house."

"Donald Trump can't come up with a hairstyle that looks human, how can he come up with a plan to defeat ISIS."

"If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself."

"I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits."

"Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex."

"The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world."

"I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else."

"Everyone's got to have a dream... It's not reaching your dream that counts. It's going toward them."

"I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'."

"Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie."

"I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'"

"Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did."

"If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up."

"Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own."

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him."

"The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing."

"Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great."

"I am the girl who everyone said was never going anywhere. I guess I shocked a few people."

"You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States."

"I can trust my friends... these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow."

"Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!"

"Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine."

"I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy."

"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great."

"There are lots of things that I'd like to be, and nice just doesn't seem good enough."

"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."

"I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous."