My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

I was born in a blender.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

Motivation is getting a hand on an idea and carrying it out

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable

Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

You were born into fearlessness, but the world may have taught you to fear.

On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We're not dating and I'm not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up.