I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me.

Such a little childTo send to be a priestling...Icy poverty

Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

One of the things I have had to focus on, in order to move forward, is not being a stunt monkey.