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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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!"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones."

"It doesn't always turn out. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group."

"I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my thoughts and regain my strength."

"I'm insecure about everything, because I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like."

"I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around."

"The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience."

"Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner."

"If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?"