When I feel something, I feel it to the ninth power.

For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

In detective land, you have to deal with a lot of intense emotions, so you yourself have to remain mostly unemotional and detached. These are people, like law enforcement and surgeons, in professions that don't have the luxury of being able to be emotional or to break down. In my line of work, it's almost a requirement.

My eyebrows are a mess. They're skinny; they're dodgy.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

You can't bring the arts too soon to kids.

How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on?

In my early years, I was much too ignorant and didn't realize how desperately important it all is, how really important the lyrics are. And for me as a singer, I am a lady who takes the lyrics first.

I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

Our first visit to the Creature Shop is one of the days I will never, ever forget. There was just so much to see and admire and be gobsmacked by.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table... one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint.

My mum gave me pretty good genes in that department. She had gorgeous skin. That good English complexion. She never seemed to have a blemish that I knew of.

When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

In my life, it would probably be giving birth to my daughter. That probably is the most, the thing that moved me the most, was the most memorable, the most wonderful, the most miraculous. I think a lot of women would probably feel that way, too.

I'm the lucky lady that was asked to be in those wonderful iconic pieces.

I like - I actually love classical music very much.