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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Enough about me. What do you think about me?

If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.

Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

I want it all - and I would like it delivered.

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.

Find your Light; They can't love you if they can't see you

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

If you wants something done, you'd better do it yourself - or ask another woman to do it.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.

When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.

I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!

[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage ...

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

GOD is watching us, from a Distance ...

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you're really a yawn if it goes

Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Total contentment is only for cows.

I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.

If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life.

Thank God for the gays. I don't know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

If you're frightened, you're out of luck.

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

I'm working my way toward divinity.

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I sold my soul to rock and roll.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening ... that's the art.

I'm so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you've been-what's the word?-oh yes: 'fired.'

I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.

Do I understand this right? I'm being marked down?

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out.

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for one minute. He hasn't been to one of my shows.