My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don’t know.

Identify the sequence of stages that leads to turning your dreams into reality

The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

Nothing like a little chest pain to restore your faith.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

Destiny isn't immutable. You can change your fate. But I'd say the only way to do it is with hard, intelligent work and long-term dedication to a goal.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.